Unabridged and twice as long, the updated version of Murnane’s 1976 novel lacks the subtlety of his later works
Gerald Murnane, the reclusive Australian “writers’ writer”, is having a cultural moment. First came the This American Life story, then the New York Times profile and now the rush to read the obscure writer who could win a Nobel prize for literature.
It’s perfect timing for the release of an unabridged version of his second novel, A Season on Earth, the first half of which was originally published as A Lifetime on Clouds, in 1976. The new novel, given it is also partly an old novel, is the perfect segue between Murnane’s own seasons as an author, beginning in the comic autobiographical style of Tamarisk Row, his 1974 debut, and arriving at the prose poetry about the Australian landscape that characterises The Plains (1982) and other works.
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