{"product_id":"9781925773347","title":"A Season on Earth","description":"Author: Murnane, Gerald\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781925773347\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Text Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 05 Feb 2019\u003cbr\u003ePages: 512 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterwork from Australia's greatest cult literary figure, published for the first time as the author originally intended.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost to the world for more than four decades,\u003ci\u003e A Season on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane: the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel, \u003ci\u003eTamarisk Row\u003c\/i\u003e, and the revolutionary prose of \u003ci\u003eThe Plains\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Season on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections-the first two of which were published as\u003ci\u003e A Lifetime on Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e in 1976 and the last two of which have never been in print.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA hilarious tale of a lustful teenager in 1950s Melbourne, \u003ci\u003eA Lifetime on Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e has been considered an outlier in Murnane's fiction. That is because, as Murnane writes in his foreword, it is 'only half a book and Adrian Sherd only half a character'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, at last, is sixteen-year-old Adrian's journey in full, from fantasies about orgies with American film stars and idealised visions of suburban marital bliss to his struggles as a Catholic novice, and finally a burgeoning sense of the boundless imaginative possibilities to be found in literature and landscapes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdrian Sherd is one of the great comic creations in Australian writing, and \u003ci\u003eA Season on Earth \u003c\/i\u003eis a revelatory portrait of the artist as a young man.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48181142782110,"sku":"UBD-9781925773347","price":39.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781925773347.jpg?v=1787398889","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781925773347","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}