{"product_id":"tamarisk-row-9781911508366","title":"Tamarisk Row","description":"\u003cp\u003eClement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing and played out in the dusty backyard of his home, across the landscapes of the district, and the continent of Australia. An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a country town in the late 1940s, \u003cem\u003eTamarisk Row's\u003c\/em\u003e lyrical prose is charged with the yearning, boredom, fear and fascination of boyhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Australia in 1974, and previously unpublished in the UK, \u003cem\u003eTamarisk Row\u003c\/em\u003e is Gerald Murnane's debut novel, and in many respects his masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGerald Murnane is the award-winning author of such acclaimed works of fiction as \u003ci\u003eBorder Districts\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBarley Patch\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Plains\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the memoir \u003ci\u003eSomething for the Pain\u003c\/i\u003e. Murnane lives in the remote village of Goroke in the northwest of Victoria, near the border with South Australia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50660797153554,"sku":"9781911508366","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0b381f2-0b88-4e7c-a505-7e783338d24c.jpg?v=1733476986","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tamarisk-row-9781911508366","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}