7 Novels by Murray Bail
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Overview: Murray Bail (born 22 September 1941) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He has lived most of his life in Australia except for sojourns in India (1968–70) and England and Europe (1970–74). He currently lives in Sydney. He was trustee of the National Gallery of Australia from 1976 to 1981, and wrote a book on Australian artist Ian Fairweather.
Genre: Fiction, Literature, Australian
The Pages
The Pages was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin, the Victorian Premier’s and the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards in 2009.
On a family sheep station in western New South Wales, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing his philosophy.
Now he has died. Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise his life’s work. Accompanying her is Sophie, who needs distracting from a string of failed relationships. Her field is psychoanalysis. The pages Wesley wrote lie untouched in the shed, just as he left them. What will they reveal? Was he a genius? How will the visit change the lives of Erica and Sophie?
The Pages is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself, by one of Australia’s greatest novelists.
Camouflage
One of Australia’s most respected and admired writers, Murray Bail’s wry humour and haunting power are fully realised in these compelling stories.
In the brilliant title story ‘Camouflage’ Eric Banerjee, an unassuming Adelaide piano tuner is sent north to contribute to Australia’s war effort in 1942. His experiences unexpectedly become some of the happiest of his life.
The Voyage
Frank Delage, piano manufacturer from Sydney, travels to Vienna, a city immersed in music, to present the Delage concert grand. He hopes to impress with its technical precision, its improvement on the old pianos of Europe.
How could he not know his piano is all wrong for Vienna? Perhaps he should have tried Berlin.
But a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities for Delage – connections, her daughter Elisabeth, and an avant garde composer. Now travelling home, on a container ship, with Elisabeth, the real story is about to begin.
Eucalyptus
On a country property a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name all his species of eucalypt, down to the last tree. Suitors emerge from all corners, including the formidable, straight-backed Mr Cave, world expert on the varieties of eucalypt. And then, walking among her father’s trees, Ellen chances on a strange young man who in the days that follow tells her dozens of stories set in cities, deserts, faraway countries…
Holden’s Performance
Holden Shadbolt is surrounded by flamboyant characters: Frank McBee, ebullient ex-corporal, scrap dealer and tycoon; Vern Hartnett, earnest proof-reader and provider of a factual diet; the comely usherette next door, teacher of the facts of life; and finally Colonel Light, who beckons Holden to join his team of bodyguards to prime ministers.
The Drover’s Wife & Other Stories
A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban father perches in his son’s tree-house to spy on his friends. A dentist recognises his estranged wife in a famous painting.
This enlarged and revised edition contains such classic stories as ‘The Drover’s Wife’, ‘Ore’ and ‘A, B, C, D, E…’ It also presents a number of new stories including the astonishing ‘The Seduction of My Sister’, which tells an increasingly bizarre story of sibling rivalry and affection.
Homesickness
It could almost have been their own country: these sections with the gums briefly framed like a traditional oil painting by the slowly passing window. The colours were as brown and parched; that chaff-coloured grass, Ah, this dun-coloured realism. Any minute now the cry of the crow or a cockatoo; but no.
Thirteen men and women travel the world on a package tour but wherever they go nothing is as it seems.
Challenged by the unexpected, by differences and subtleties, Bail’s tourists are in turn repelled and attracted, and all are altered.
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