A season on earth /
Murnane, Gerald, 1939-
A season on earth / Gerald Murnane. - xvi, 485 pages ; 25 cm
"Combines the two sections that were published as A Lifetime on clouds in 1976 and two more that the publisher cut from the original manuscript" -- Book jacket.
"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 a revelatory portrait of the artist as a young man"--Provided by publisher.
9781925773347 1925773345
GBB963212 bnb
019348023 Uk
Teenage boys--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Historical fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Bildungsromans.
A season on earth / Gerald Murnane. - xvi, 485 pages ; 25 cm
"Combines the two sections that were published as A Lifetime on clouds in 1976 and two more that the publisher cut from the original manuscript" -- Book jacket.
"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 a revelatory portrait of the artist as a young man"--Provided by publisher.
9781925773347 1925773345
GBB963212 bnb
019348023 Uk
Teenage boys--Australia--Melbourne (Vic.)--Fiction.
Australian fiction.
Historical fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Bildungsromans.