'His works are to be savoured for their elegant artifice ... This is particularly true of The Voyage' Andrew Reimer, <i>Sydney Morning Herald</i>.

Sydney Morning Herald

'This masterful concoction engages, excites and perturbs with singular virtuosity' Eileen Battersby, <i>Irish Times</i>.

Irish Times

'One reads in a permanent faint fever, on tenterhooks, never knowing quite where a sentence or a paragraph may veer off to' John Banville.

John Banville

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'We won't see a finer piece of fiction in the longest while' Peter Craven, <i>Melbourne Age</i>.

Melbourne Age

'Worthy of Henry James ... Deserves to be Booker nominated' Steve Barfield, <i>The Lady</i>.

Lady

Frank Delage, a middle-aged Australian, arrives in Vienna with the most daring of propositions. He has invented a revolutionary piano and means to market it to the grand old world of classical music. A chance meeting with one Amalia von Schalla brings new possibilities - a soirée, an introduction to her daughter Elisabeth, dinner with an avant-garde composer. But when the sheer audacity of his campaign dawns on him, he takes a slow boat home to the southern hemisphere. As it meanders through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal, he is afforded ample time to reflect on tensions between the old world and the new. And, for all his travails, he is not going home empty-handed...
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Frank Delage, a middle-aged Australian on the make, arrives in Vienna with the most daring of propositions. But when the sheer audacity of his campaign dawns on him, Delage beats a retreat to the southern hemisphere...
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781780878577
Publisert
2014-01-30
Utgiver
Vendor
MacLehose Press
Vekt
158 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
14 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176

Forfatter

Om bidragsyterne

Born in Adelaide in 1941, Murray Bail now lives in Sydney. His fiction, which includes Eucalyptus, Holden's Performance, Homesickness and The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, has been translated into more than twenty-five languages, winning a number of major awards.