Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald MurnaneStories from a mind bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole) Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories originally published from 1985 to 2012 offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians. While the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and

Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole)

Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories--originally published from 1985 to 2012--offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.

While the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting "Land Deal," which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to "Finger Web," which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to "The Interior of Gaaldine," which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself.

No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how--and why--we read.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/03/2018
ISBN: 9780374126001
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.40d

Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/15/2017
Publishers Weekly 01/15/2018
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2018
Booklist 03/15/2018 pg. 17