Homesickness: Text Classics
By (Author) Murray Bail
Introduction by Peter Conrad
Text Publishing
The Text Publishing Company
26th April 2012
Australia
General
Fiction
A823.30
Winner of National Book Council Award for Australian Literature 1980 (Australia)
Paperback
448
Width 128mm, Height 198mm
305g
"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.
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.