Emerald Blue
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; appears unread
At the threshold of memory, desire, and the shimmering boundary between the seen and the imagined, Emerald Blue draws readers into the singular interior world of one of Australia's most enigmatic literary voices. This collection of stories presents a narrator — or series of narrators — obsessed with the landscapes of the mind: horse-racing colours, vast plains, and the elusive women glimpsed at a distance, each image charged with a lifetime of yearning and meaning. Gerald Murnane crafts a fiction that is less about plot than about the archaeology of consciousness, each story quietly interrogating how we construct our inner lives from fragments of colour, memory, and longing. Murnane's prose is spare yet hypnotic, advancing with a measured, philosophical precision that recalls writers such as Thomas Bernhard and W.G. Sebald, while remaining unmistakably Australian in its spatial imagination. Emerald Blue chronicles the persistent human need to find pattern and permanence in a world of fleeting impressions, and argues — through the accumulation of luminous, meditative episodes — that fiction itself is the truest map of the self. For readers willing to surrender to its unhurried rhythms, this work rewards with an experience that lingers long after the final page is turned, posing the quietly devastating question: what remains of a life that exists only in the mind?
Author: Gerald Murnane
Format: Paperback
Published: 1995, McPhee Gribble Publishers
Genre: Fiction
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image; appears unread
At the threshold of memory, desire, and the shimmering boundary between the seen and the imagined, Emerald Blue draws readers into the singular interior world of one of Australia's most enigmatic literary voices. This collection of stories presents a narrator — or series of narrators — obsessed with the landscapes of the mind: horse-racing colours, vast plains, and the elusive women glimpsed at a distance, each image charged with a lifetime of yearning and meaning. Gerald Murnane crafts a fiction that is less about plot than about the archaeology of consciousness, each story quietly interrogating how we construct our inner lives from fragments of colour, memory, and longing. Murnane's prose is spare yet hypnotic, advancing with a measured, philosophical precision that recalls writers such as Thomas Bernhard and W.G. Sebald, while remaining unmistakably Australian in its spatial imagination. Emerald Blue chronicles the persistent human need to find pattern and permanence in a world of fleeting impressions, and argues — through the accumulation of luminous, meditative episodes — that fiction itself is the truest map of the self. For readers willing to surrender to its unhurried rhythms, this work rewards with an experience that lingers long after the final page is turned, posing the quietly devastating question: what remains of a life that exists only in the mind?