The plains

Resource Information

The work The plains represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Newburyport Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The plains

Statement of responsibility

Gerald Murnane; introduced by Ben Lerner

Creator

• Murnane, Gerald, 1939-

Contributor

• Lerner, Ben, 1979-

Author

• Murnane, Gerald, 1939-

Author of introduction

• Lerner, Ben, 1979-

Subject

• Families -- Australia -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Manners and customs
• Australia
• Plains -- Australia -- Fiction
• Plains
• Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Families

Genre

• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

On their vast estates, the landowning families of the plains have preserved a rich and distinctive culture. Obsessed with their own habitat and history, they hire artisans, writers and historians to record in minute detail every aspect of their lives, and the nature of their land. A young film-maker arrives on the plains, hoping to make his own contribution to the elaboration of this history. In a private library he begins to take notes for a film, and chooses the daughter of his patron for a leading role.Twenty years later, he begins to tell his haunting story of life on the plains. As his story unfolds, the novel becomes, in the words of Murray Bail, a mirage of landscape, memory, love and literature itself

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

823/.3

Index

no index present

LC call number

PR9619.3.M76

LC item number

P55 20

Literary form

fiction