A Million Windows

Description

A kaleidoscopic meditation on the glories and pitfalls of storytelling.
“The house of fiction,” wrote Henry James, “has . . . not one window, but a million.” Gerald Murnane takes these words as his starting point, and asks: Who, exactly, are that house’s residents, and what do they see from their respective rooms? Focusing on the importance of trust and the ever-present risk of betrayal in writing as in life, these nested stories explore the fraught relationships between author and reader, child and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane’s fiction is woven from images – the reflections of the setting sun on distant windowpanes, seemingly limitless grasslands, a procession of dark-haired women, a clearing in a forest, the colors indigo and silver-grey, and the mysterious death of a young woman – which build to an emotional climax that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of its patterning.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Gerald Murnane
Published: 05/10/2016
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567925555
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 0.50″ H x 8.40″ L x 5.40″ W

About the Author
Murnane, Gerald: –

Gerald Murnane has published ten volumes of fiction, including Tamarisk Row, Inland, and A History of Books, and a collection of essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs. He is a recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award, the Melbourne Prize for Literature, the Adelaide Festival Literature Award for Innovation, and an Emeritus Fellowship from the Literature Board of the Australia Council.