Stories From A Mind-bending Australian Master, âa Genius On The Level Of Beckettâ (teju Cole) Never Before Available To Readers In This Hemisphere, These Storiesâoriginally Published From 1985 To 2012âoffer An Irresistible Compendium Of The Work Of One Of Contemporary Fictionâs Greatest Magicians. While The Australian Master Gerald Murnaneâs Reputation Rests Largely On His Longer Works Of Fiction, His Short Stories Stand Among The Most Brilliant And Idiosyncratic Uses Of The Form Since Borges, Beckett, And Nabokov. Brutal, Comic, Obscene, And Crystalline, Stream System Runs From The Haunting âland Deal,â Which Imagines The Colonization Of Australia And The Ultimate Vengeance Of Its Indigenous People As A Series Of Nested Dreams; To âfinger Web,â Which Tells A Quietly Terrifying, Fractal Tale Of The Scars Of War And The Roots Of Misogyny; To âthe Interior Of Gaaldine,â Which Finds Its Anxious Protagonist Stranded Beyond The Limits Of Fiction Itself. No One Else Writes Like Murnane, And There Are Few Other Authors Alive Still Capable Of Changing Howâand Whyâwe Read.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- Short Stories & Anthologies
- Short Stories
- Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Author : Murnane, Gerald
Language : English
Published :2018-04-03
Number Of Pages : 560
Binding : paperback
ISBN-10 : 0374126003
ISBN-13 : 9780374126001
Item weight : 2.31 lb
Dimensions : 1.5 in x 5.5 in x 8.2 in
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