![]() He lives in a small town in Western Victoria, near the border with South Australia. He is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, and an Emeritus Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. One of Australia’s most highly regarded authors, he has published several volumes of fiction, including Border Districts, Stream System, and Barley Patch, as well a collection of essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, and a memoir, Something for the Pain. Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. Twenty years later, he begins to tell his haunting story of life on the plains. Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. In a private library he begins to take notes for a film, and chooses the daughter of his patron for a leading role. A young film-maker arrives on the plains, hoping to make his own contribution to the elaboration of this history. ![]() ![]() Obsessed with their own habitat and history, they hire artisans, writers and historians to record in minute detail every aspect of their lives, and the nature of their land. The Plains (1982), by Gerald Murnane Gerald Murnane is a most mysterious author of strangely seductive books, and I’m currently reading Inland, first published in 1988 and now reprinted as part of the Australian Classics Library. We still suffered from cultural cringe and also still felt that the outback defined us. On their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. The plains was first published in 1982, which is, really, a generation ago. ![]() The Plains by Gerald Murnane / ISBN 9781921922275 / 208-page paperback from Text Classics ![]()
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