{"product_id":"stream-system-collected-short-fiction","title":"Stream System Collected Short Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eOriginally published between 1985 and 2012, these stories offer an enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians, and a map of Gerald Murnane’s evolution as a writer. Spare, transparent and profane, This career-spanning volume ranges from ‘Finger Web’, a fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny, to ‘Land Deal’, which imagines Australia’s colonisation and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams, to ‘The Interior of Gaaldine’, a story which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself, and which points the way toward Murnane’s later works, from \u003ci\u003eBarley Patch\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eBorder Districts\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With potent style and determined vision, Murnane creates sensitive portraits of intimate relationships – with parents, uncles and aunts, and particularly children – and probes each situation for anxiety and embarrassment, shame or delight. Murnane treats emotions and thoughts as he does minor objects: he shines light through them and makes them new, remaking the vessel of literature as he goes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett'' Teju Cole\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A voice so clear, so unaffected, that it''s a voice for everyone'' Benjamin H. Ogden,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''The sentences are laid on like varnish, coat after coat, until the text gleams with a high shine. Immaculate in its unadorned plainness...his prose achieves a crystalline beauty.'' \u003ci\u003e The New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57303650697598,"sku":"NW9781911508649","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781911508649.jpg?v=1778690782","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/stream-system-collected-short-fiction","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}