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Murray Bail
Born
in Adelaide, SA, Australia
September 22, 1941
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Eucalyptus
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published
1998
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67 editions
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The Pages
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published
2008
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14 editions
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Homesickness
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published
1980
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16 editions
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The Voyage
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published
2012
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23 editions
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Camouflage: Stories
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published
2000
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16 editions
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Holden's Performance
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published
1987
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11 editions
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The drover's wife and other stories
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published
1986
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4 editions
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He.
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published
2021
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4 editions
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The Faber Book of Contemporary Australian Short Stories
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Notebooks 1970 - 2003
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published
2005
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4 editions
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“A person meets thousands of different people across a lifetime, a woman thousands of different men, of all shades, and many more if she constantly passes through different parts of the world. Even so, of the many different people a person on average meets it is rare for one to fit almost immediately in harmony and general interest. For all the choices available the odds are enormous.The miracle is there to be grasped.”
― Eucalyptus
― Eucalyptus
“It is not normal for a body to remain horizontal; beyond a certain length of time it attracts concern. Death and burial ('laid to rest') are seen as the natural horizontal states, which is surely why the calculated falsity of perpendicular deaths, such as hangings, crucifixions, burnings at the stakes, etc. produce such indelible shock.”
― Eucalyptus
― Eucalyptus
“Some people, some nations, are permanently in shade. Some people cast a shadow. Lengths of elongated darkness precede them, even in church or when the sun is in, as they say, mopped up by the dirty cloth of the could. A puddle of dark forms around their feet. It's very pine like. The pine and darkness are one. Eucalypts are unusual in this respect: set pendulously their leaves allow see-through foliage which in turn produces a frail patterned sort of shade, if at all. Clarity, lack of darkness-these might be called 'eucalyptus qualities'.”
― Eucalyptus
― Eucalyptus
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| Romance Readers R...: Armchair Travelers Challenge | 36 | 261 | Jun 10, 2010 12:20PM | |
| The World's Liter...: THE PAGES and EUCALYPTUS. Murray Bail | 1 | 3 | Aug 11, 2011 09:52PM | |
| Challenge: 50 Books: Deb's 2011 reading extravaganza | 47 | 88 | Dec 10, 2011 05:39PM | |
| Aussie Readers: **Aussie Author Challenge** | 504 | 386 | Dec 31, 2011 07:48PM |
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