{"product_id":"a-history-of-books-gerald-murnane-9781916751873","title":"A History of Books","description":"\u003cb\u003eDefying conventional ideas of fiction, this novel is a hypnotic meditation on memory and reading from Australia's greatest living visionary, Aussie's backlands Proust.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe major work of fiction in this collection, 'A History of Books', explores the relationship between reading and writing in twenty-nine sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image in the writer's mind. The memory of the books themselves might have faded, but the images remain in their clarity and import--scenes of discord and madness, a stern-faced man, a young woman on a swing, a glass of beer and rays of sunlight, mountain and woodland and horizon--images which together embody the anxieties and aspirations of a writing life, and its indebtedness to what has been written and read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gerald Murnane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1916751873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781916751873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e And Other Stories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/06\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Gerald Murnane","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174156345599,"sku":"9781916751873","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-history-of-books-gerald-murnane-9781916751873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}