num_pages: 192
description: A kaleidoscopic meditation on fiction-making by one of Australia's most acclaimed writers.The house of fiction wrote Henry James has . . . not one window but a million. In this his latest work Gerald Murnane one of Australia's most acclaimed contemporary authors takes these words as his starting point and asks: Who exactly are that house's residents and what do they see from their respective rooms? His answer A Million Windows is a gorgeous (if unsettling) investigation into the glories and pitfalls of storytelling. Focusing on the importance of trust and the inevitability of betrayal in writing as in life its nested stories explore the fraught relationships between author and reader child and parent boyfriend and girlfriend husband and wife. Murnane's fiction is woven from images-the reflections of the setting sun on distant windowpanes seemingly limitless grasslands a procession of dark-haired women a clearing in a forest the colors indigo and silver-grey and the mysterious death of a young woman-which build to an emotional crescendo that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of its patterning.
language: English
title: A Million Windows
publisher: David R. Godine Publisher