{"product_id":"landscape-with-landscape","title":"Landscape with Landscape","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor twenty-three years I was able to say that the most important event in my life had taken place on a frosty evening while I stood and shivered on a basketball court behind a Catholic church in an outer south-eastern suburb of Melbourne.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNow published for the first time outside of Australia, \u003cem\u003eLandscape with Landscape\u003c\/em\u003e was Gerald Murnane’s fourth book, and his first collection of short fiction. It offers a wide-ranging exploration of the different landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer. Five of the six loosely connected stories also trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. The sixth story, “The Battle of Acosta Nu,” is remarkable for its depth of emotion, as it imagines a Paraguayan man imagining a country called Australia, while his son sickens and dies before his eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e[publishers’ note]\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57358278099284,"sku":"A8B-36832","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1072\/9609\/6596\/files\/landscpaw.jpg?v=1790814680","url":"https:\/\/after8books.com\/products\/landscape-with-landscape","provider":"After 8 Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}