{"product_id":"landscape-with-landscape-9781916751378","title":"Landscape with Landscape","description":"\u003ci\u003eLandscape with Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e was Gerald Murnane's fourth book, after \u003ci\u003eThe Plains\u003c\/i\u003e, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. \"I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest, which of all my book-children was the most brutally treated in its early years,\" Murnane writes in his foreword to this new edition. In hindsight it can be seen to contain some of his best writing, and to offer a wide-ranging exploration of the different landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer. Five of the six loosely connected stories also trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. The sixth story, 'The Battle of Acosta Nu', is remarkable for its depth of emotion, as it imagines a Paraguayan man imagining a country called Australia, while his son sickens and dies before his eyes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGerald Murnane is the award-winning author of such acclaimed works of fiction as \u003ci\u003eBorder Districts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Plains\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eInland\u003c\/i\u003e, and equally acclaimed non-fiction such as \u003ci\u003eLast Letter to a Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and the essay collection \u003ci\u003eInvisible Yet Enduring Lilacs\u003c\/i\u003e. Murnane lives in Goroke, a remote village in western Victoria, Australia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864341578002,"sku":"9781916751378","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4f5cdf8-5341-438a-938b-82df58afda8e.jpg?v=1767786003","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/landscape-with-landscape-9781916751378","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}