Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

A Million Windows

Gerald Murnane
3.76/5 (128 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
A kaleidoscopic meditation on fiction-making by one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.

"The house of fiction," wrote Henry James, "has . . . not one window, but a million." In this, his latest work, Gerald Murnane, one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary authors, takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from their respective rooms? His answer, A Million Windows, is a gorgeous (if unsettling) investigation into the glories and pitfalls of storytelling. Focusing on the importance of trust and the inevitability of betrayal in writing as in life, its 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 crescendo that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of its patterning.
Format:
Paperback with flaps
Pages:
192 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1567925553
ISBN13:
9781567925555
kindle Asin:
B085H8NRL5

A Million Windows

Gerald Murnane
3.76/5 (128 ratings)
Read Download
A kaleidoscopic meditation on fiction-making by one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.

"The house of fiction," wrote Henry James, "has . . . not one window, but a million." In this, his latest work, Gerald Murnane, one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary authors, takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house's residents, and what do they see from their respective rooms? His answer, A Million Windows, is a gorgeous (if unsettling) investigation into the glories and pitfalls of storytelling. Focusing on the importance of trust and the inevitability of betrayal in writing as in life, its 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 crescendo that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of its patterning.
Format:
Paperback with flaps
Pages:
192 pages
Publication:
2016
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1567925553
ISBN13:
9781567925555
kindle Asin:
B085H8NRL5

More Books

Solenoid

Mircea Cărtărescu

In the Café of Lost Youth

Patrick Modiano

Trilogía

Jon Fosse

The Rings of Saturn

W.G. Sebald

Voices in the Evening

Natalia Ginzburg

النافذة

Ireneusz Iredyński

La plus secrète mémoire des hommes

Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

أولاد الناس

ريم بسيوني

شوق الدرويش

حمور زيادة

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Voss

Patrick White

The Poetics of Space

Gaston Bachelard