A Million Windows - Couverture souple

Murnane, Gerald

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1567925553 ISBN 13 : 9781567925555

Editeur : David R. Godine Publisher Inc, 2016

Synopsis

A kaleidoscopic meditation on the glories and pitfalls of storytelling.
"The house of fiction," wrote Henry James, "has . . . not one window, but a million." Gerald Murnane takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from their respective rooms? Focusing on the importance of trust and the ever-present risk of betrayal in writing as in life, these nested stories explore the fraught relationships between author and reader, child and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane's fiction is woven from images - the reflections of the setting sun on distant windowpanes, seemingly limitless grasslands, a procession of dark-haired women, a clearing in a forest, the colors indigo and silver-grey, and the mysterious death of a young woman - which build to an emotional climax that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of its patterning.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gerald Murnane has published ten volumes of fiction, including Tamarisk Row, Inland, and A History of Books, and a collection of essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. He is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation, and an Emeritus Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: David R. Godine Publisher Inc
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1567925553
• ISBN 13: 9781567925555
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 194
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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