A Season On Earth: " The essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces."
by Gerald Murnane
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1925773345
- ISBN 13
- 9781925773347
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About This Item
A Season On Earth
Gerald Murnane
Isbn: 9781925773347
New unread copy signed by the author.
What he had been searching for was not the perfect religious order but the perfect landscape…From that moment on he was a poet in search of his ideal landscape. Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane: the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. A Season on Earth is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections-the first two of which were published as A Lifetime on Clouds in 1976 and the last two of which have never been in print. A hilarious tale of a lustful teenager in 1950s Melbourne, A Lifetime on Clouds has been considered an outlier in Murnane's fiction. That is because, as Murnane writes in his foreword, it is 'only half a book and Adrian Sherd only half a character'. Here, at last, is sixteen-year-old Adrian's journey in full, from fantasies about orgies with American film stars and idealised visions of suburban marital bliss to his struggles as a Catholic novice, and finally a burgeoning sense of the boundless imaginative possibilities to be found in literature and landscapes. Adrian Sherd is one of the great comic creations in Australian writing, and A Season on Earth is a revelatory portrait of the artist as a young man.
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- Bookseller
- Dorian Gallery (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1934454994835
- Title
- A Season On Earth
- Author
- Gerald Murnane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with jacket
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st AU
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1925773345
- ISBN 13
- 9781925773347
- Publisher
- Text Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne, Australia
- Date Published
- 2019