Camouflage
By (Author) Murray Bail
By (author) Murray Bail
Text Publishing
The Text Publishing Company
1st November 2000
Australia
General
Fiction
A823.3
Hardback
96
Width 114mm, Height 165mm, Spine 15mm
137g
Here, by the highly acclaimed and bestselling author of Eucalyptus, is the perfect gem of a Christmas gift. The brilliant title story Camouflage tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942. Accompanying it is on of Bail's masterly pieces of short fiction, The Seduction of My Sister, a weird and compelling account of sibling rivalry and love.
Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. Homesickness, his first novel, won the National Book Award for Australian Literature and the Melbourne Age Book of the Year Award. Holden's Performance, first published in 1988, won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. Eucalyptus was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Murray Bail's non-fiction includes an acclaimed monograph on the work of the painter Ian Fairweather and Longhand, A Writer's Notebook.