The author's first novel, "Homesickness", won both the National Book Council Award for Australian Literature and the "Age" Book of the Year Award. His subsequent novel, "Holden's Performance", won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction.
Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941, and now lives in Sydney. His first novel, Homesickness, won the National Book Award for Australian Literature and the Melbourne Age Book of the Year Award. His subsequent novel, Holden's Performance, won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. His non-fiction includes an acclaimed monograph on the work of the painter Ian Fairweather.
There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such strange and sly and
swerving humour. Murray Bail is the warmest and quick witted of
storytellers. You will never forget what is at the heart of this
book: one of the great and most surprising courtships in
literature
It's a masterpiece. A novel of high seriousness and higher
playfulness that will scarcely be matched this year for the
dexterity of its wit
*Spectator*
Bail tells a story which is encrusted with delicious detail, and
writes in an affecting mood of rapt tenderness. The book will haunt
its readers long after more perfectly-finished fictions have faded
from their memories
*Observer*
Eucalyptus is that rare thing: a book whose author has succeeded in
harnessing the seductive format of the fairy story and transforming
it into something quite distinctive - neither fantastical nor
realistic, but an elegant, humane, funny and wise journey to the
interior of the human heart
*Sunday Telegraph*
Tall trees inspire tall tales. Eucalyptus makes most other novels
seem weedy by comparison. It is a towering achievement
*Time Out*
There is such delight in Eucalyptus, such strange and sly and
swerving humour. Murray Bail is the warmest and quick witted of
storytellers. You will never forget what is at the heart of this
book: one of the great and most surprising courtships in
literature
It's a masterpiece. A novel of high seriousness and higher
playfulness that will scarcely be matched this year for the
dexterity of its wit -- Michael Hulse * Spectator *
Bail tells a story which is encrusted with delicious detail, and
writes in an affecting mood of rapt tenderness. The book will haunt
its readers long after more perfectly-finished fictions have faded
from their memories * Observer *
Eucalyptus is that rare thing: a book whose author has succeeded in
harnessing the seductive format of the fairy story and transforming
it into something quite distinctive - neither fantastical nor
realistic, but an elegant, humane, funny and wise journey to the
interior of the human heart -- Jane Shilling * Sunday Telegraph
*
Tall trees inspire tall tales. Eucalyptus makes most other
novels seem weedy by comparison. It is a towering achievement *
Time Out *
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