Item #155735 LONGHAND. Murray Bail.

LONGHAND.

A writer's notebook. Pp. [vi]+142; printed stiff paper wrappers, the lower wrapper faintly soiled and a trifle rubbed; text block browned; McPhee Gribble Publishers, Melbourne, 1989. First edition. *'In 1968 Murray Bail left Australia for the first time. After living in India, he arrived in London mid-1970. Taken from his notebooks over the next four years, and pared to the bone, Longhand records an expatriate's view of England and parts of Europe, with notes on landscape, dialogue overheard, people met, time spent in a Tropical Diseases Hospital, fragments of books, reportage and, always, ideas for stories' [wrapper blurb]. Item #155735

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