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The Pages

The Pages

Murray Bail

  • award* shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award
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  • award* shortlisted, Prime Minister's Literary Awards
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  • award* shortlisted, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
  • 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?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.

    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:
    202pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    12 June 2009
    ISBN:
    9781921520457
    AU Price:
    $23.95
    NZ Price:
    $28.00
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    • The Pages
      ebook
      ISBN: 9781921776465
      16 May 2010
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    • Hardback
      ISBN: 9781921351464
      30 June 2008