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Tamarisk Row

By Gerald Murnane
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Tamarisk Row by Gerald Murnane intricately explores the childhood of a young boy named Clement Killeaton in a small Australian town. Through Clement's eyes, the novel captures the complexities of family life, personal dreams, and the allure of horse racing. Set against a vivid landscape, it delves deep into the imagination and nuances of growing up in a richly depicted world.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate vivid and richly woven narratives that explore the intricate and sometimes harsh realities of a young boy's life in a small Australian town. With its lyrical prose, the story reveals the complexities of family, dreams, and the landscape itself, offering readers a deep and immersive experience.

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Tamarisk Row

An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s. Clement Killeaton transforms his father's obsession with gambling, his mother's piety, the cruelty of his fellow pupils and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex, into an imagined world.

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Based on Murnane's own early years growing up in the Victorian country town of Bendigo, Tamarisk Row is an unsparing evocation of an impoverished Catholic childhood in the late 1940s.

Originally published in 1974, and out of print for almost twenty years, Tamarisk Row is Murnane's first novel, and in many respects, his masterpiece. Not only because of its rich social tapestry and its evocation of the Australian landscape, but because it does magical things with language. Its long, sinuous sentences capture the movements of consciousness with a suppleness unmatched in our writing.

For this reason, the novel remains as fresh and vital when read today as when it first appeared.

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ISBN: 9781920882396

Publisher: Giramondo Publishing Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 March 2008

Country: Australia

Imprint: Giramondo Publishing Co

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 0g

Pages: 286

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