Description
A young film-maker arrives on the plains with a simple ambition—to make a film and leave his mark on a landscape that seems to resist being captured. As he settles into a private library and begins to take notes, the novel unfolds less as a conventional journey than as a shifting meditation on memory, authorship, and the ways language both reveals and misleads. Gerald Murnane’s distinctive, lyrical style turns the “plot” into a living problem: how to describe a place without losing oneself in words, and how to pursue meaning when the world keeps slipping into abstraction. Blending quiet suspense with philosophical depth, the book explores the creative act as a form of searching—one where the plains may never be fully reached, yet the pursuit transforms everything.
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paperback
Penguin
Published Jan 1, 1984
126 pages
ISBN: 9780140071689
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First Published
1982
Language
eng
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