Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane - Paperback

$22.00

Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane - Paperback

Name: Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane - Paperback
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SKU: 9780374126001
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by Gerald Murnane

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Book Overview

Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole)

Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories--originally published from 1985 to 2012--offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.

While the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting "Land Deal," which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to "Finger Web," which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to "The Interior of Gaaldine," which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself.

No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how--and why--we read.

ISBN	9780374126001
Author	Gerald Murnane
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre	Literature
Format	Paperback
Published	April 2018
Language	ENG- English
Pages	560
Weight	1.0 lb
Target Audience	Adults
Print Size	Standard Print