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Text Publishing Company
02 March 2021
An elusive, elliptical, often beautiful thread of recollections and observations, He. is not autobiography, or even memoir, but an almost anonymous portrait of a figure passing through time and circumstances. It begins with boyhood, in suburban Adelaide after the war. As the narrator remembers the years the focus shifts forward to the recent past and back again, often within the same paragraph, mirroring the randomness of memory. Through these vignettes and fragments we glimpse moments and lives—of parents, teachers, wives, and others; in Bombay of the 1960s, London of the 1970s, Melbourne and Sydney. He. is by Murray Bail, the acclaimed author of such classic novels as Homesickness and Eucalyptus.

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Imprint:   Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   294g
ISBN:   9781922330949
ISBN 10:   1922330949
Pages:   176
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. His most recent novels are The Pages (2008) and The Voyage (2012).

Reviews for He.

'One of the most remarkable of the generation of Australian fiction writers that includes Peter Carey and came to first maturity 25 or so years ago.' * Age * 'Few writers anywhere in the world can match [Bail] for stylistic daring.' * Irish Examiner * 'One of Australia's most original and imaginative writers.' * Canberra Times * 'As a storyteller, Bail cannot put a foot wrong.' -- Signature 'Bail writes like an angel.' -- Bulletin 'Murray Bail ranks as one of three indisputably world-class Australian novelists now practicing.' -- The New York Times Book Review 'He. is a record of observing...Observation, rather than interaction, is His approach to the world...The images and memories break out in a disorderly jostle. But they are the memories He keeps...There is so much that is pleasurable in He.-the apercus, the aphorisms, the vignettes of time and place.' * Australian Book Review *


  • Joint winner of Australian Book Design Awards 2022 (Australia)

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