The Resource A season on Earth, Gerald Murnane
A season on Earth, Gerald Murnane
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- Summary
- Lost to the world for more than four decades, A season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane: the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. It is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections, the first two of which were published as "A lifetime on clouds" in 1976 and the last two of which have never been in print. A hilarious tale of a lustful teenager in 1950s Melbourne, "A lifetime on clouds" has been considered an outlier in Murnane's fiction. Here, at last, is sixteen-year-old Adrian's journey in full, from fantasies about orgies with American film stars and idealised visions of suburban marital bliss to his struggles as a Catholic novice, and finally a burgeoning sense of the boundless imaginative possibilities to be found in literature and landscapes
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- vxi, 485 pages
- Note
- A lifetime on clouds first published by William Heinemann, Australia, 1976
- Isbn
- 9781925773347
- Label
- A season on Earth
- Title
- A season on Earth
- Statement of responsibility
- Gerald Murnane
- Subject
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- trueTeenage boys
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueLust
- truePuberty
- trueSexuality
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueMelbourne, Victoria
- trueAustralia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueGrowing up
- Teenage boys -- Sexual behavior -- Victoria | Melbourne -- Fiction
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Lost to the world for more than four decades, A season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane: the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. It is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections, the first two of which were published as "A lifetime on clouds" in 1976 and the last two of which have never been in print. A hilarious tale of a lustful teenager in 1950s Melbourne, "A lifetime on clouds" has been considered an outlier in Murnane's fiction. Here, at last, is sixteen-year-old Adrian's journey in full, from fantasies about orgies with American film stars and idealised visions of suburban marital bliss to his struggles as a Catholic novice, and finally a burgeoning sense of the boundless imaginative possibilities to be found in literature and landscapes
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10748480
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1939-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Murnane, Gerald
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Nineteen fifties
- Teenage boys
- Melbourne (Vic.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- A season on Earth, Gerald Murnane
- Note
- A lifetime on clouds first published by William Heinemann, Australia, 1976
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000064469713
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- vxi, 485 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781925773347
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1056728942
- Label
- A season on Earth, Gerald Murnane
- Note
- A lifetime on clouds first published by William Heinemann, Australia, 1976
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000064469713
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- vxi, 485 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781925773347
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1056728942
Subject
- true1950s -- 1950 -- 1959
- trueAustralia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- trueAustralian fiction
- trueGrowing up
- trueHistorical fiction
- trueLust
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- trueMelbourne, Victoria
- Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
- truePuberty
- trueSexuality
- trueTeenage boys
- Teenage boys -- Sexual behavior -- Victoria | Melbourne -- Fiction
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