Superb and surprising new fiction is found in this major new collection from the Australian master.A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive. A suburban father perches in his son's tree house to spy on his friends. A dentist recognises his estranged wife in a famous painting. 'The Seduction of My Sister' tells of the increasingly bizarre events involving a boy and his sister when a new family moves in across the street. And in 'Camouflage', Eric Banerjee, an unassuming Adelaide piano tuner, is sent north to the centre of Australia in 1943 to make his contribution to the war effort. It is clear in all these remarkable stories that Murray Bail - already celebrated for his novels - has also extended the manifold possibilities of short fiction. Each of his stories creates a strange and fascinating new world, and none of them is easily forgotten. Bail's work in this collection is deft, angular, and very entertaining; the mastery of his art is fully revealed with wry humour and haunting power.

Camouflage and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Murray Bail

Short Stories & Anthologies

Vintage

Homesickness

Contemporary

Penguin Books Australia Ltd.

Eucalyptus

Literary

Text Publishing

Holden's Performance

Faber&Faber

Bail Murray : Holden'S Performance

<p>1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and The Commonwealth Writers Prize.Love Story!</p>

From the “world-class Australian novelist” (The New York Times) comes a deft, angular, and highly entertaining collection of stories. “The Seduction of My Sister” tells of the increasingly bizarre events between siblings when a new family moves in across the street, while “Healing” recalls a vanished time when a boy’s headlong, innocent rush into certain disaster could be averted by a simple miracle. A man named Huebler decides to photograph everyone alive, and an unassuming piano-tuner is sent to the center of Australia in 1943 to contribute to the war effort. A captivating, piquant collection from a master of the craft.

Camouflage

Text Publishing Company

The Pages

Text Publishing Melbourne Australia

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