Homesickness: Text Classics
Text Classics
$18.07
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
26 April 2012
Summary
Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail’s tourists are in turn repelled and attracted—and all are altered.
Introduced by Peter Conrad
Winner, National Book Council Award for Australian Literature Winner, Age Book of the Year Award
It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921922619 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1921922613 |
| Author: | Murray Bail |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 26 April 2012 |
| Weight: | 306g |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Murray Bail
Murray Bail (Author)
Murray Bail lives in Sydney. His first book, The Drover’s Wife and Other Stories, was published in 1975. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. His most recent novel is The Voyage.
Peter Conrad (Introducer)
Peter Conrad was born in Hobart, taught English literature at Christ Church Oxford from 1973 to 2011, and now lives in London and New York. His books include At Home in Australia and, most recently, Verdi and/or Wagner.
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