Tamarisk Row Av Gerald Murnane

<p>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, <em>Tamarisk Row’s</em> lyrical prose is charged with the yearning, boredom, fear and fascination of boyhood.</p><p>First published in Australia in 1974, and previously unpublished in the UK, <em>Tamarisk Row</em> is Gerald Murnane’s debut novel, and in many respects his masterpiece.</p>