Invisible Yet Enduring LilacsSomeone has written that all art aspires to the condition of music. My experience is that all art, including all music, aspires to the condition of horse racing. This collection of essays leads the reader into the searching and wildly fertile imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, author of the classics Border Districts and Tamarisk Row, and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award. He writes of

• Gilgamesh

So wrote the Adoption Society to the woman who became Kate Foley’s adoptive mother

highlighter

in Europe and other parts of the world

ISBN 9781852249496)

deepsense of inadequacy

or political debate

Described by the late U

Well worth a look

With many examples

her voice contributes to the dismantling of old-fashioned conceptions of female sexuality

including Seán O'Faoláin