Border districts
Subtitle: a fiction
By: Gerald Murnane
Edition: First American edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780374115753
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Reminiscing; Memory; Fiction
Description: In Border Districts, a man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, which people, which books, fictional characters, turns of phrase, and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? A dark-haired woman with a wistful expression? An ancestral house in the grasslands? The colors in translucent panes of glass, in marbles and goldfish and racing silks? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloging this treasure, little knowing where his "report" will lead and what secrets will be brought to light.