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Homesickness

Homesickness

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Murray Bail

  • awardWinner, National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1980
  • awardWinner, Age Book of the Year Award, 1980
  • Homesickness, Murray Bail’s brilliant first novel won the 1980 National Book Council Award and the 1980 Age Book of the Year Award.Thirteen men and women, married and single, happy and sad, visit various countries and museums, hotels and shops. They are like tourists anywhere, except that wherever they go – Africa, England, South America, New York or Russia – they find nothing is as it seems. Challenged by unexpected propositions, differences and subtleties of life and history, Bail’s tourists are in turn repelled, attracted, altered.

    Murray Bail
    About the Author

    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 book is He.

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    Extent:
    448pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    26 April 2012
    First published:
    1980
    ISBN:
    9781921922619
    AU Price:
    $12.95
    NZ Price:
    $15.99
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    • Homesickness
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      ISBN: 9781921961038
      26 April 2012
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