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[The stories] glow with a radioactive cleverness...it's great fun to watch them sparkle and fizz...into glorious full-color weirdness...Marvelous. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> Darkly comic...[Bail] resists, by sheer force of invention, the drag of glib moralizing on suburban lifelessness. -- The Washington Post Book World <br> [An] entertaining collection...a cross between Orwell and Kafka...reminiscent of Bernard Malamud at his most inspired...Exquisite work from a most unusual master craftsman who's one of his continent's finest writers. -- Kirkus Reviews <br> An illuminating, dexterously written collection. -- Publishers Weekly <br>

&#8220;[The stories] glow with a radioactive cleverness...it&#8217;s great fun to watch them sparkle and fizz...into glorious full-color weirdness...Marvelous.&#8221; &#8212; The New York Times Book Review <br>&#8220;Darkly comic...[Bail] resists, by sheer force of invention, the drag of glib moralizing on suburban lifelessness.&#8221; &#8212; The Washington Post Book World <br>&#8220;[An] entertaining collection...a cross between Orwell and Kafka...reminiscent of Bernard Malamud at his most inspired...Exquisite work from a most unusual master craftsman who&#8217;s one of his continent&#8217;s finest writers.&#8221; &#8212; Kirkus Reviews <br>&#8220;An illuminating, dexterously written collection.&#8221; &#8212; Publishers Weekly <br>

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Murray Bail has won numerous prizes for his novels-- Eucalyptus, Homesickness, and Holden's Performance --including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Eucalyptus. He lives in Sydney, Australia.<br>

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