Glissando A Melodrama

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Glissando is something unique: a thoroughly contemporary novel that marriages the intensity and fervour of Patrick White to the displaced cosmopolitan with of Murray Bail and Gerald Murnane.- James Bradley When looking back over his life, Archie Fliess has got some understanding to do. So begins his sprawling reflection, from the day the fortunes of two brothers change when they're taken to be the rightful owners of their granfather's property in country NSW. Along their journey they're introduced to an odd collection of family and caretakers, who don't always have the boys' best interests at heart. Archie becomes embroiled in the mystery surrounding his grandfather's life, as their two stories of disappointment and failed ambition unravel. Glissando travels along many threads with a playful, philosophical voice in a style reminiscent of Sterne's Tristram Shandy and White's Voss. It has a burlesque bravado similar to Steve Tolt's Fraction of the Whole. It's an Australia classic, a satirical romp of epic proportions. "...the care (Musgrave) takes in balancing scholarly fastidiousness with a poet's luminous prose, high comedy with mortal seriousness, results in a work whose refusal of human depth is qualified by the fathomless riches it provides." - The Weekend Australian

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ISBN:

9781740669337

Format:

Paperback

Pages:

320

Dimensions:

19cm x 13cm

RRP:

$27.95

Category:

Fiction

Publisher:

Sleepers Publishing

Published:

01 April 2010

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Musgrave

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