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Camouflage

By Murray Bail
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Camouflage by Murray Bail is a collection of short stories exploring ordinary lives infused with moments of introspection and subtle transformation. With a keen eye for detail and emotion, each tale delves into personal experiences and relationships, often highlighting the unexpected layers hidden beneath the surface of everyday situations. The narratives capture the complexity and richness of human thought and interaction.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate intricate storytelling with layers of subtlety and surprise. Murray Bail crafts narratives that explore themes of identity and perception, inviting readers to reflect on how appearances and realities can be woven together. Ideal for those who savour literary fiction with rich, engaging prose.

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Camouflage

Tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942.

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Here, by the highly acclaimed and bestselling author of Eucalyptus, is the perfect gem of a Christmas gift. The brilliant title story Camouflage tells the story of Eric Banerjee, an Adelaide piano-tuner sent north to defend Australia in 1942.

Accompanying it is one of Bail's masterly pieces of short fiction, The Seduction of My Sister, a weird and compelling account of sibling rivalry and love.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781876485641

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 November 2000

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 114.0mm

Height: 165.0mm

Weight: 137g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. Homesickness, his first novel, won the National Book Award for Australian Literature and the Melbourne Age Book of the Year Award. Holden's Performance, first published in 1988, won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. Eucalyptus was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Murray Bail's non-fiction includes an acclaimed monograph on the work of the painter Ian Fairweather and Longhand, A Writer's Notebook.

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