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Tamarisk Row

A lonely child of unusual sensibility inherits his father`s love of horse-racing and his mother`s Catholicism in this evocative, semi-autobiographical novel.Clement Killeaton transforms his father’™s gambling, his mother’™s piety, his fellow pupils` cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing and played out in the dusty backyard of his home, across the landscapes of the district, and the continent of Australia. An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a country town in the late 1940s, Tamarisk Row’™s lyrical prose is charged with the yearning, boredom, fear and fascination of boyhood.First published in Australia in 1974, and previously unpublished in the UK, Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane’™s debut novel, and in many respects his masterpiece.

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