Barley Patch

Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a...
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Barley Patch by Murnane, Gerald

Barley Patch

$30.77

Barley Patch

$30.77
Author: Gerald Murnane
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again.

The book begins with the question, "Must I write?" What follows is both a chronicle of the images that have endured in the author's mind and an exploration of their nature. The clarity of the images is extraordinary, as is their range, from Mandrake the Magician to the bachelor uncle kicked in the "stones" as a child, from a cousin's doll's house to the mysterious woman who lets her hair down, from the soldier beetle who winks messages from God to the racehorses that run forever in the author's mind.

The narrator lays bare the acts of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. With something of the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, this is a cornerstone of Murnane's unclassifiable project, for which he is a deserving Nobel Prize candidate.



Author: Gerald Murnane
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 02/04/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.64h x 4.88w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781916751149


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2024

About the Author
Gerald Murnane is the award-winning author of such acclaimed works of fiction as Border Districts, The Plains and Inland, and equally acclaimed non-fiction such as Last Letter to a Reader and the essay collection Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. Murnane lives in Goroke, a remote village in western Victoria, Australia.

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