The Plains
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
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: overall - good. 2nd issue DJ preserved within mylar. Name stamp on fep. Light foxing on book block. Binding remains tight.
In a landscape that defies easy mapping — vast, interior, and mythic — a filmmaker arrives on the Australian plains seeking to document its people, only to find himself drawn into a world of aristocratic landowners whose obsession with meaning, beauty, and the plains themselves surpasses all rational understanding. Gerald Murnane's The Plains is a work of crystalline, hypnotic prose that chronicles one man's slow immersion into a civilization existing at the edge of perception, where art, philosophy, and identity collapse into the horizon. Regarded as one of the great unsung masterworks of Australian literature, The Plains argues that the interior landscape is not merely a physical space but a state of mind — a metaphysical territory that resists conquest and comprehension alike. Murnane's style is meditative and precise, each sentence constructed with the patience of a man who understands that meaning lies always just beyond the next rise. For readers who prize fiction that challenges the boundaries of narrative itself, this slim, luminous novel leaves one question permanently unanswered: what, truly, lies at the heart of the plains?
Author: Gerald Murnane
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Norstrilia Press
Genre: Australian history
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: overall - good. 2nd issue DJ preserved within mylar. Name stamp on fep. Light foxing on book block. Binding remains tight.
In a landscape that defies easy mapping — vast, interior, and mythic — a filmmaker arrives on the Australian plains seeking to document its people, only to find himself drawn into a world of aristocratic landowners whose obsession with meaning, beauty, and the plains themselves surpasses all rational understanding. Gerald Murnane's The Plains is a work of crystalline, hypnotic prose that chronicles one man's slow immersion into a civilization existing at the edge of perception, where art, philosophy, and identity collapse into the horizon. Regarded as one of the great unsung masterworks of Australian literature, The Plains argues that the interior landscape is not merely a physical space but a state of mind — a metaphysical territory that resists conquest and comprehension alike. Murnane's style is meditative and precise, each sentence constructed with the patience of a man who understands that meaning lies always just beyond the next rise. For readers who prize fiction that challenges the boundaries of narrative itself, this slim, luminous novel leaves one question permanently unanswered: what, truly, lies at the heart of the plains?