Barley Patch (Australian Literature Series)
“Murnane examines the nature of reading and writing and the construction  of truths and fictions. And somehow, without the use of metaphor or simile,  but simple transparency, he approaches the underside of these  concepts, the heart of the matter, the magic of the thing that is storytelling.” (Smiljana Glisovic - Readings)“Murnane is quite simply one of the finest writers we have produced.” (Peter Craven)“[A] book about another, more perfect book never destined to be written . . . It  is like a big, polished stone thrown into the babbling brook of ordinary novels.” (The Australian)“An obsessive, funny, wonderfully self-invented  writer at the height of his powers.” (Michael Heyward)