The Plains
Gerald Murnane
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Recommended by John
‘Eccentric, humane and funny – there’s no-one better than Murnane for tracking the intricacies and distortions of memory. Read this first, and then if you like it, try the brilliant long novel Tamarisk Row.’
From the publisher
Introduction by Wayne Macauley
Twenty years ago, when I first arrived on the plains, I kept my eyes open. I looked for anything in the landscape that seemed to hint at some elaborate meaning behind appearances.
There is no book in Australian literature like The Plains. In the two decades since its first publication, this haunting novel has earned its status as a classic. A nameless young man arrives on the plains and begins to document the strange and rich culture of the plains families. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail, ‘a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself’.