Clement 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, Tamarisk Row’s lyrical prose is charged with the yearning, boredom, fear and fascination of boyhood.
First published in Australia in 1974, and previously unpublished in the UK, Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane’s debut novel, and in many respects his masterpiece.
Author: Gerald Murnane
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 05/03/2022
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 7.72h x 5.04w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781911508366
Language: English
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