{"product_id":"a-million-windows-9781567925555","title":"A Million Windows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA kaleidoscopic meditation on the glories and pitfalls of storytelling.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"The house of fiction,\" wrote Henry James, \"has . . . not one window, but a million.\" Gerald Murnane takes these words as his starting point, and asks: \u003ci\u003eWho, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from their respective rooms?\u003c\/i\u003e Focusing on the importance of trust and the ever-present risk of betrayal in writing as in life, these nested stories explore the fraught relationships between author and reader, child and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane's fiction is woven from images -- the reflections of the setting sun on distant windowpanes, seemingly limitless grasslands, a procession of dark-haired women, a clearing in a forest, the colors indigo and silver-grey, and the mysterious death of a young woman -- which build to an emotional climax that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of its patterning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMurnane, Gerald:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Murnane\u003c\/b\u003e has published ten volumes of fiction, including \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTamarisk Row\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA History of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, and a collection of essays, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. He is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation, and an Emeritus Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David R. Godine Publisher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50438728909074,"sku":"9781567925555","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e48cd2e9-bdd9-4eb6-b229-75bc70cf66c9.jpg?v=1729653369","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-million-windows-9781567925555","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}