"NOTHING LESS THAN AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF THE WORLD… THERE IS MUCH TO LOVE IN THIS NOVEL": FIRST EDITION OF LIFETIME ON CLOUDS, SIGNED BY THE RECLUSIVE AUSTRALIAN NOVELIST GERALD MURNANE
MURNANE, Gerald. A Lifetime on Clouds. Melbourne: William Heinemann, 1976. Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket.
First edition of the second novel by Murnane, esteemed as "'a genius' and a 'worthy heir to Beckett,'" signed by him.
In Lifetime on Clouds, Murnane "provides nothing less than an alternative history of the world… the funniest and most accessible of all his works, it is also a moving and fearless account of adolescent angst… There is much to love in this novel" (Australian). Murnane's work, as a novelist and essayist, has won high praise from writers such as J.M. Coetzee, and "Teju Cole has described Murnane as 'a genius' and a 'worthy heir to Beckett'… [Yet] a strong case could be made for Murnane, who recently turned 79, as the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of." Nevertheless "Ladbrokes placed his odds at winning the Nobel Prize for Literature at 50 to 1—better than Cormac McCarthy, Salman Rushdie and Elena Ferrante. Murnane's books are strange and wonderful and nearly impossible to describe" (New York Times). Owner signature well above Murnane's signature on the preliminary blank.
A highly desirable copy signed by the elusive Australian writer, in fine condition.