{"product_id":"9781911508366-tamarisk-row","title":"Tamarisk Row","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA lonely child of unusual sensibility inherits his father's love of horse-racing and his mother's Catholicism in this evocative, semi-autobiographical novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eClement 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, \u003cem\u003eTamarisk Row’s\u003c\/em\u003e lyrical prose is charged with the yearning, boredom, fear and fascination of boyhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published in Australia in 1974, and previously unpublished in the UK, \u003cem\u003eTamarisk Row\u003c\/em\u003e is Gerald Murnane’s debut novel, and in many respects his masterpiece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56450756215158,"sku":"9781911508366","price":10.33,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28418286.jpg?v=1760453923","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781911508366-tamarisk-row","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}