{"product_id":"2026100008939-secondhand-landscape-with-landscape","title":"Landscape With Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Edition \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the fertile plains of the Australian imagination emerges Landscape with Landscape, a quietly revolutionary work by one of Australia's most singular literary voices, Gerald Murnane — a collection of six novellas bound together by a haunting preoccupation with memory, place, and the strange territories of the inner life. Each story presents a narrator whose reality is not the world outside his window, but the vast, intricate landscapes constructed within his own mind, where fiction and autobiography blur into something altogether more unsettling and more true. Murnane chronicles the lives of men who are watchers and dreamers, men for whom the act of reading or writing a story is itself the most significant event that can occur, rendering the mundane luminous and the imagined utterly real.\n\nMurnane's prose style is one of radical precision — spare, hypnotic, and utterly uncompromising — a style that has earned him comparison to the great European modernists while remaining unmistakably rooted in the flat, sun-bleached geography of Victoria, Australia. Landscape with Landscape argues, with quiet insistence, that the landscapes we carry within us are as vivid and as consequential as anything the physical world can offer. First published by Melbourne's Norstrilia Press, this is an essential artefact of Australian literary modernism, and a work that rewards — and indeed demands — the most attentive of readers. What does it mean to live entirely within the country of one's own imagination? Murnane does not offer easy answers, but the question itself lingers long after the final page.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49313640120539,"sku":"2026100008939-SECONDHAND","price":300.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/35750879-2b0e-403b-a73d-f716efd84cb6.png?v=1789524765","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008939-secondhand-landscape-with-landscape","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}