![]() It's not hard to understand what provoked Murnane's editors into this amputation: apart from anything else, although the second half is attractively droll, it isn't nearly as funny as the first. ![]() As Murnane tells it in the preface, his then publisher Heinemann baulked at bringing out the full novel, which comes in at more than 400 pages, and the first two parts of which were the adventures (mostly or entirely in the mind) of the committed teenage Catholic masturbator Adrian Sherd. ![]() The first, A Season on Earth, isn't new work, but the publication of the complete manuscript whose first half appeared in 1976 as his second novel, A Lifetime on Clouds. Last year saw the publication of what he says is his last work of fiction, Border Districts, but there are still surprises in store, and this year brings two further additions to the canon. Now there are admiring pieces in The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books – the latter by J.M. Green Shadows and Other Poems by Gerald Murnane. ![]()
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