Tamarisk Row
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Overall - near fine. Unclipped dj. Boards - square and clean; binding remains tight. Clean, bright and tight copy.
In the sun-scorched plains of rural Victoria, a young boy named Clement Killeaton constructs an elaborate inner world from the fragments of his Catholic upbringing, his father's obsessive horse-racing gambling, and the shimmering mysteries of suburban Australian life in the 1950s. Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane's debut novel — a work of autofiction and lyrical intensity — that chronicles Clement's attempt to impose order and meaning on a chaotic world through the intricate landscapes of his imagination, where racetracks, marbles, and religious iconography blur into a single, sacred mythology. Murnane writes with a hypnotic, recursive precision that has since earned him recognition as one of Australia's most singular literary voices, often compared to Proust in his meticulous excavation of memory and interiority. The novel argues, quietly but powerfully, that the inner life of a child is as vast and consequential as any external history, mapping a consciousness in formation against a backdrop of post-war Australian suburbia. A cornerstone of Australian modernist fiction, Tamarisk Row rewards patient readers with its beautifully strange accumulation of detail — leaving one to wonder where the boundaries of the real world end and Clement's luminous private universe begins.
Author: Gerald Murnane
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Heinemann Melbourne
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Excellent
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Overall - near fine. Unclipped dj. Boards - square and clean; binding remains tight. Clean, bright and tight copy.
In the sun-scorched plains of rural Victoria, a young boy named Clement Killeaton constructs an elaborate inner world from the fragments of his Catholic upbringing, his father's obsessive horse-racing gambling, and the shimmering mysteries of suburban Australian life in the 1950s. Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane's debut novel — a work of autofiction and lyrical intensity — that chronicles Clement's attempt to impose order and meaning on a chaotic world through the intricate landscapes of his imagination, where racetracks, marbles, and religious iconography blur into a single, sacred mythology. Murnane writes with a hypnotic, recursive precision that has since earned him recognition as one of Australia's most singular literary voices, often compared to Proust in his meticulous excavation of memory and interiority. The novel argues, quietly but powerfully, that the inner life of a child is as vast and consequential as any external history, mapping a consciousness in formation against a backdrop of post-war Australian suburbia. A cornerstone of Australian modernist fiction, Tamarisk Row rewards patient readers with its beautifully strange accumulation of detail — leaving one to wonder where the boundaries of the real world end and Clement's luminous private universe begins.