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A Lifetime on Clouds: Text Classics
Published 23 October 2013
ISBN 9781922147455
Format Paperback
Extent 176pp
AU Price $14.95
NZ Price $17.99

A Lifetime on Clouds: Text Classics

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23 Oct 2013
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23 Oct 2013
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A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told: a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy's Complaint.

Introduced by Andy Griffiths.

Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s—the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever.

Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart and fathering eleven children by her. He even dreams a history of the world as a chronicle of sexual frustration.
Published 23 October 2013
ISBN 9781922147455
Format Paperback
Extent 176pp
AU Price $14.95
NZ Price $17.99

About the author

Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane was born in Melbourne in 1939. He has been a primary teacher, an editor and a university lecturer. His debut novel, Tamarisk Row (1974), was followed by nine other works of fiction, including The Plains (now available as a Text Classic) and most recently A Million Windows. In 1999 Murnane won the Patrick White Award and in 2009 he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature. His memoir Something for the Pain won the 2016 Victorian Premier's Award for non-fiction. He lives in western Victoria.
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Praise for A Lifetime on Clouds: Text Classics

Unquestionably one of the most original writers working in Australia today

Australian

A Lifetime on Clouds delighted me: I was particularly admiring of the author's unfailing ability to say just enough and no more

Les Murray, Sydney Morning Herald

Murnane draws out a great deal of comedy from the distance between what his hero does and what he dreams

Guardian

If you only ever read one Gerald Murnane novel in your life, I urge you to make it this one

Andy Griffiths, in his introduction