Born in Adelaide in 1941, Murray Bail now lives in Sydney. His fiction, which includes Eucalyptus, Holden's Performance, Homesickness and The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, winning a number of major awards.
'There's a lightness to Bail's writing - a gentle stealth in its
revelations - that slowly but surely brings the reader alive'
Canberra Times.
*Canberra Times*
'A lustrous piece of fiction, consistently surprising and
illuminating, full of mirrors and illusions, but with the abiding
face of real feeling and deep truth. We won't see a finer piece of
fiction in the longest while' Peter Craven, Melbourne Age.
*Melbourne Age*
'His works are to be savoured for their elegant artifice ... This
novel is not the sum of its preoccupations but an essentially
abstract work of art: an invention in the sense that Bach and his
contemporaries used the term for some of their compositions' Andrew
Reimer, Sydney Morning Herald.
*Sydney Morning Herald*
'Few writers anywhere in the world can match the esteemed
Australian for stylistic daring ... a short but sumptuous feast'
The Irish Examiner.
*Irish Examiner*
'Beautiful, lyrical, elegant, musical, often surprising and wittily
allusive: it is a very readable and original example of high
modernism's delight in experimentation ... deserves to be Booker
nominated' The Lady.
*Lady*
'Curiously exciting: one reads in a permanent faint fever, on
tenterhooks, never knowing quite where a sentence or a paragraph
may veer off to' John Banville, The Monthly.
*Monthly*
'Intelligent and shockingly funny ... vastly thought-provoking ...
this masterful concoction engages, excites and perturbs with
singular virtuosity' Irish Times.
*Irish Times*
'There's a lightness to Bail's writing - a gentle stealth in its
revelations - that slowly but surely brings the reader alive'
Canberra Times. * Canberra Times *
'A lustrous piece of fiction, consistently surprising and
illuminating, full of mirrors and illusions, but with the abiding
face of real feeling and deep truth. We won't see a finer piece of
fiction in the longest while' Peter Craven, Melbourne Age. *
Melbourne Age *
'His works are to be savoured for their elegant artifice ... This
novel is not the sum of its preoccupations but an essentially
abstract work of art: an invention in the sense that Bach and his
contemporaries used the term for some of their compositions' Andrew
Reimer, Sydney Morning Herald. * Sydney Morning Herald *
'Few writers anywhere in the world can match the esteemed
Australian for stylistic daring ... a short but sumptuous feast'
The Irish Examiner. * Irish Examiner *
'Beautiful, lyrical, elegant, musical, often surprising and wittily
allusive: it is a very readable and original example of high
modernism's delight in experimentation ... deserves to be Booker
nominated' The Lady. * Lady *
'Curiously exciting: one reads in a permanent faint fever, on
tenterhooks, never knowing quite where a sentence or a paragraph
may veer off to' John Banville, The Monthly. * Monthly *
'Intelligent and shockingly funny ... vastly thought-provoking ...
this masterful concoction engages, excites and perturbs with
singular virtuosity' Irish Times. * Irish Times *
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