TY  - BOOK
AU  - Murnane,Gerald
TI  - A season on earth
SN  - 9781925773347
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Melbourne
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Australia
KW  - Melbourne (Vic.)
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Humorous fiction
KW  - Bildungsromans
N1  - "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
N2  - "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
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