Barley Patch
By (Author) Gerald Murnane
Giramondo Publishing Co
Giramondo Publishing Co
1st October 2009
Australia
General
Fiction
823.3
Paperback
266
Width 150mm, Height 210mm
Often mentioned as an author in contention for the Nobel Prize, Gerald Murnane is regarded by many as Australia's most innovative and important writer of fiction. Barley Patch, Murnane's first new work of fiction in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. Appropriately, the book begins with the question, Must I write What follows is a remarkable account of the images that have appeared in the author's mind during a career of over thirty years as a reader and writer.