Landscape with Landscape
Published on 13. January 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-916751-37-8 (ISBN)
Description
Five of the six stories in Landscape with Landscape trace a suburban journey in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. In the sixth story a Paraguayan man imagines a country called Australia, while his son sickens before his eyes.
'Murnane is unlike anyone else, the sort of writer who demands to be read in a new way but, above all, demands to be read.' Brian Evenson, Chicago Review of Books
'The emotional conviction . . . is so intense, the sombre lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiselled sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.' J. M. Coetzee
'Murnane is unlike anyone else, the sort of writer who demands to be read in a new way but, above all, demands to be read.' Brian Evenson, Chicago Review of Books
'The emotional conviction . . . is so intense, the sombre lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiselled sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.' J. M. Coetzee
Reviews / Votes
'This is some of his finest writing, and a major work by any measure.' Michael LaPointe, Times Literary Supplement 'Murnane writes in a curious and faintly otherworldly rhythm. His sentences are often flat and his paragraphs recursive, yet build up to moments of evocative and surprisingly lyrical insight and beauty.' Daniel Swift, The SpectatorMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
High Wycombe
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 196 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
250 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-916751-37-8 (9781916751378)
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Gerald Murnane is the award-winning author of acclaimed works of fiction as Border Districts, The Plains and Inland, and equally acclaimed non-fiction such as Last Letter to a Reader and the essay collection Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. Murnane lives in Goroke, a remote village in western Victoria, Australia.