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Murray Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself.What are The Pages?On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing a philosophy.
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Contemplative, contemporary, prestige and intimate.
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- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Murray Bail
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 199
- Publisher
- Text Pub., Random House Publishing Group
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781407014647
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