An edition of The Pages (2008)

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Murray Bail
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An edition of The Pages (2008)

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"Erica Hazelhurst, a philosopher from Sydney, has been given a project by her university to work on the papers of the late Wesley Antill (The Pages). She travels across the Blue Mountains to his country property with her psychologist friend Sophie. They stay with Wesley's sister and brother and learn of Wesley's life as he travelled in Europe looking for philosophical insight. It looks at the relationship between ideas and experience, philosophy and psychology, and city and country life."--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher
Text Pub.
Language
English
Pages
199

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2008, Text Pub.
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2008, Random House Publishing Group
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Melbourne

Edition Notes

Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
A823.3
Library of Congress
PR9619.3.B25 P34 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
199 p. ;
Number of pages
199

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22532851M
ISBN 13
9781921351464
LCCN
2008428016
OCLC/WorldCat
232969278
Library Thing
5763485

Work Description

Murray Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself.What are The Pages?On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing a philosophy. Now he has died. Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise his work. Accompanying her is Sophie, who needs a distraction from a string of failed relationships. Her field is psychoanalysis. These two women, each with different views of the world, face a situation they have not experienced before, with surprising results.Murray Bail's first novel since Eucalyptus is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself.

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