Velvet Waters
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the hush between thought and perception, Gerald Murnane constructs a world where the act of reading and imagining becomes the central drama of existence. Velvet Waters is a landmark collection of ten prose pieces — part fiction, part meditation — in which Murnane's solitary, unnamed narrators contemplate images, landscapes, and the layered nature of consciousness itself. Set in the distinctly flat, golden plains of suburban Melbourne and the vast Australian interior, each piece chronicles a mind turning inward, obsessively cataloguing the images that rise and dissolve like water, tracing the invisible architecture of memory and desire. Murnane, widely regarded as one of Australia's most singular and underappreciated literary voices, writes in a style that is at once austere and hypnotic, stripping language back to its barest precision while charging every sentence with philosophical weight. Velvet Waters stands as a testament to his radical vision of fiction as pure thought — a sustained argument that the landscape of the imagination is as real, and as vast, as any physical terrain. For readers willing to surrender to its rhythms, this collection promises an experience that lingers long after the final page, quietly rearranging the furniture of the mind.
Author: Gerald Murnane
Format: Hardback
Published: 1990, McPhee Gribble
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
In the hush between thought and perception, Gerald Murnane constructs a world where the act of reading and imagining becomes the central drama of existence. Velvet Waters is a landmark collection of ten prose pieces — part fiction, part meditation — in which Murnane's solitary, unnamed narrators contemplate images, landscapes, and the layered nature of consciousness itself. Set in the distinctly flat, golden plains of suburban Melbourne and the vast Australian interior, each piece chronicles a mind turning inward, obsessively cataloguing the images that rise and dissolve like water, tracing the invisible architecture of memory and desire. Murnane, widely regarded as one of Australia's most singular and underappreciated literary voices, writes in a style that is at once austere and hypnotic, stripping language back to its barest precision while charging every sentence with philosophical weight. Velvet Waters stands as a testament to his radical vision of fiction as pure thought — a sustained argument that the landscape of the imagination is as real, and as vast, as any physical terrain. For readers willing to surrender to its rhythms, this collection promises an experience that lingers long after the final page, quietly rearranging the furniture of the mind.