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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.
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'Worthy of Henry James ... Deserves to be Booker nominated' Steve Barfield, The Lady. * Lady * 'We won't see a finer piece of fiction in the longest while' Peter Craven, Melbourne Age. * Melbourne Age * 'One reads in a permanent faint fever, on tenterhooks, never knowing quite where a sentence or a paragraph may veer off to' John Banville. * John Banville * 'This masterful concoction engages, excites and perturbs with singular virtuosity' Eileen Battersby, Irish Times. * Irish Times * 'His works are to be savoured for their elegant artifice ... This is particularly true of The Voyage' Andrew Reimer, Sydney Morning Herald. * Sydney Morning Herald *
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- PublisherMacLehose Press
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 1780878575
- ISBN 13 9781780878577
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- Number of pages176
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