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'Emmett Stinson’s Murnane offers a critical and enlightening assessment of the Gerald Murnane’s four late fictions, and through these incredibly self-reflexive works, a reading of the eponymous author’s entire oeuvre. Stinson’s superb introduction gives way to chapter- length considerations of Barley Patch (2009), A History of Books (2010), A Million Windows (2014) and Border Districts (2017), before concluding with an assessment of Murnane’s ‘late style’. The study confirms this late style is intensely introspective and genre-bending – somewhere between novel, memoir and essay – as Murnane seeks to retrospectively reform and recontextualise his entire body of work.' (Introduction)