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Homesickness: Text Classics

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

Homesickness: Text Classics

Contributors:

By (Author) Murray Bail
Introduction by Peter Conrad

ISBN:

9781921922619

Publisher:

Text Publishing

Imprint:

The Text Publishing Company

Publication Date:

26th April 2012

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Dewey:

A823.30

Prizes:

Winner of National Book Council Award for Australian Literature 1980 (Australia)

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

448

Dimensions:

Width 128mm, Height 198mm

Weight:

305g

Description

"It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but no." Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems. Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail's tourists are in turn repelled and attracted - and all are altered.

Author Bio

Murray Bail's fiction, which includes Eucalyptus, Holden's Performance, Homesickness and The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, has won a number of major awards.

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