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THE VOYAGE

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THE VOYAGE

by Bail, Murray

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1623650720
ISBN 13
9781623650728
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New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.: MacLehose Press, 2014. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. n THE VOYAGE, piano manufacturer and salesman Frank Delage travels to Vienna from Sydney, hoping to introduce a new design to replace the respected old pianos of Europe. He walks the great musical city, offering an impassioned defense of his piano's technical superiority to any who will hear it. When his ambitions are ignored by the city's staid musical elite, Delage's finds his situation suddenly transformed by a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla, an elegant grande dame of Viennese society. Now sailing home to Australia aboard the container ship Romance with his new bride, Amalia's daughter Elisabeth von Schalla, Delage and his story begin to come to light in a hypnotic sequence of memories, voices, and snatches of conversations. Bail's prose sidewinds like a slipstream as Delage's story moves between the glittering society of the von Schalla's Vienna and the rough landscape of Australia. The VoyageTHE VOYAGElity and the immediacy emotion, as well as revealing a great basin of interior life. THE VOYAGE was a finalist for the NSW Premier's Liter y Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, WA Premier's Book Awards, and the Queensland Literary Awards. Author of EUCALYPTUS. As new, unread first edition, first printing , in as new, mylar-protected dust jacket.[Not remainder-marked or price-clipped] L135

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Born in Adelaide in 1941, Murray Bail now lives in Sydney. His fiction, which includes Eucalyptus , Holden’s Performance , Homesickness and The Drover’s Wife and Other Stories , has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, winning a number of major awards.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE VOYAGE
Author
Bail, Murray
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
New As New
Jacket Condition
As New
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition 1st Printing
ISBN 10
1623650720
ISBN 13
9781623650728
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Place of Publication
New York, NY 10010, U.S.A.
Date Published
2014
Pages
144
Size
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Product_type
2

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