A haunting, beautiful and award-winning novel first published in 1982 to great acclaim.
Author was recently featured in the New York Times. Awareness of this novel is high; Very affordable Classics edition, following the boutique hardcover with Ben Lerner's introduction published in 2016; Murnane widely tipped as a future laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature; Author received the Patrick White Literary Award in 1999, and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2009; Features a new introduction by Wayne Macauley, author of The Cook; Murnane's latest novel, Border Districts, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award.
Author was recently featured in the New York Times. Awareness of this novel is high; Very affordable Classics edition, following the boutique hardcover with Ben Lerner's introduction published in 2016; Murnane widely tipped as a future laureate of the Nobel Prize for Literature; Author received the Patrick White Literary Award in 1999, and the Melbourne Prize for Literature in 2009; Features a new introduction by Wayne Macauley, author of The Cook; Murnane's latest novel, Border Districts, has been shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award.







