Gerald Murnane

A Million Windows

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A kaleidoscopic meditation on the glories and pitfalls of storytelling.The house of fiction, wrote Henry James, has . . . not one window, but a million. Gerald Murnane takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from their respective rooms? Focusing on the importance of trust and the ever-present risk of betrayal in writing as in life, these nested stories explore the fraught relationships between author and reader, child and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane's fiction is woven from images - the reflections of the setting sun on distant windowpanes… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-56792-555-5
EAN: 9781567925555
Produktnummer: 33833908
Verlag: David R Godine Publ
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 200 S.
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.6 cm x D2.2 cm 298 g
Gewicht: 298

Über den Autor

Gerald Murnane has published ten volumes of fiction, including Tamarisk Row, Inland, and A History of Books, and a collection of essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. He is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation, and an Emeritus Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council.