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Barley Patch

Barley Patch

Murnane, Gerald

Paperback

General FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 1916751148
ISBN13: 9781916751149
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: Feb 4 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.63 Width: 4.88 Depth: 7.64
Language: English
Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again.

The book begins with the question, Must I write? What follows is both a chronicle of the images that have endured in the author's mind and an exploration of their nature. The clarity of the images is extraordinary, as is their range, from Mandrake the Magician to the bachelor uncle kicked in the stones as a child, from a cousin's doll's house to the mysterious woman who lets her hair down, from the soldier beetle who winks messages from God to the racehorses that run forever in the author's mind.

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