Praise for Gerald Murnane
"Murnane’s protagonist is absolutely unforgettable, and the author himself, whose name has been appearing on Nobel Prize–contender lists recently, only adds to his exceptional body of work with this wonderful novel.”—Publishers Weekly [starred]
"The most accessible book by this extraordinary author."—Booklist
‘“A bizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed.”—Ben Lerner, New Yorker
“Strange and wonderful.”—New York Times on The Plains
”Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.”—Teju Cole on The Plains
“Murnane touches on foibles and philosophy, plays with the makings of a fable or allegory, and all the while toys with tone, moving easily from earnest to deadpan to lightly ironic…Provocative, delightful, diverting.”—Kirkus (starred) on The Plains
"Murnane, in his unfailingly serious way, is very funny ... we read and think about him ruminating on his reading and thinking about reading and thinking until the book rather gloriously threatens to swallow itself whole."―Harper's Magazine on Border Districts
"Devotees of Murnane (The Plains), the exacting Australian writer of crafty, austere fictions, will find familiar themes in this prismatic work: the fascination with color, the grassy landscapes, and the obsessive compiling of a mind’s 'image-history.’"―Publishers Weekly on Stream System
"An old man ruminates on landscapes and houses, authors and religion, colored glass and memory in this drifting quasi-fiction. The unnamed narrator, age 72, has recently moved from a city to live alone in a 'quiet township' near an unspecified border in an unnamed country. In the opening pages, he recalls his school days and the religious brothers who taught him."―Kirkus [starred] on Stream System
"One of Australia’s most important writers."―Publishers Weekly [starred] on Stream System
“An exploration of the mind and of literary creation, it is a book of intricate construction and vast intellectual scope.”—New York Times on A Million Windows
“An extraordinary and consistently compelling read from beginning to end.”—Midwest Book Review on A Million Windows
“Murnane is a master of breathing life into fiction, and his compilation of ideas on the subject holds immense value because those ideas are often so idiosyncratic and contrarian.”—Publishers Weekly on A Million Windows
“Compels the reader to question the relationship between fiction and reality, the visible and invisible world”—World Literature Today on A Million Windows
“[Murnane's] emotional conviction . . . is so intense, the somber lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiseled sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.”—J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books on A Million Windows
