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The Pages
Published 12 June 2009
ISBN 9781921520457
Format Paperback
Extent 202pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $28.00

The Pages

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Paperback
12 June 2009
EBook
16 May 2010
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The Pages is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself, by one of Australia's greatest novelists, the author of the much-loved Eucalyptus.

On a family sheep station in western New South Wales, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing his philosophy.

Now he has died. Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise his life's work. Accompanying her is Sophie, who needs distracting from a string of failed relationships. Her field is psychoanalysis.

The pages Wesley wrote lie untouched in the shed, just as he left them. What will they reveal? Was he a genius? These turn out to be only a couple of the questions in the air. How will the visit change the lives of Erica and Sophie?
Published 12 June 2009
ISBN 9781921520457
Format Paperback
Extent 202pp
AU Price $23.95
NZ Price $28.00

About the author

Murray Bail

Murray Bail lives in Sydney. His first book, The Drover’s Wife and Other Stories, was published in 1975. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. His most recent novel is The Voyage.
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Also by Murray Bail

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The Voyage
Homesickness: Text Classics
Camouflage
Holden's Performance
Eucalyptus
The Drover's Wife & Other Stories
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Praise for The Pages

This is a staggeringly rich book, full of warmth and sadness and the absolute tang of the real . . . It's a wonderful book

The Age

So few and far between are Murray Bail's books . . . that fans await them like drought-breaking rainfalls in the bush. They will not be disappointed with The Pages

Sydney Morning Herald

This is an assured work by Bail, and one bound to cement his place as one of Australia's most original and imaginative writers

Canberra Times