Holden's Performance

Author:   Murray Bail
Publisher:   St. Martins Press-3PL
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9780312420802


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 May 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Holden's Performance by award-winning author Murray Bail is the story of Holden Shadbolt, a guileless and matter-of-fact innocent as he passes through the cities and landscape of Australia. His reassuring silent presence and photographic memory make him useful to men of power and women who appear to need his protection. He is surrounded by larger than life figures whose exploits and adventures Holden follows--ex-Corporal Frank 'Bloodnut' McBee, the scrap dealer who woos his mother; his uncle Vern, a shortsighted proofreader who likes facts and eating newspaper with is breakfast cereal; and the crippled artist Harriet, whose twists and curves appeal to Holden as he holds to his own unswervingly straight lines.

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Author:   Murray Bail
Publisher:   St. Martins Press-3PL
Imprint:   St. Martins Press-3PL
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780312420802


ISBN 10:   0312420803
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 May 2002
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD   Availability explained
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A work of dazzling imagination. -- Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. -- The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. -- Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. -- Times on Sunday A work of dazzling imagination. --Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. --The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. --Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. --Times on Sunday A work of dazzling imagination. Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. Times on Sunday A work of dazzling imagination. -- Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. -- The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. -- Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. -- Times on Sunday A work of dazzling imagination. - Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. - The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. - Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. - Times on Sunday A work of dazzling imagination. -- Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. -- The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. -- Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. -- Times on Sunday A work of dazzling imagination. -- Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. -- The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. -- Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. -- Times on Sunday A work of dazzling imagination. -- Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. -- The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. -- Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. -- Times on Sunday


A work of dazzling imagination. -- Independent Holden's Performance is a triumph. -- The Australian Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. -- Melbourne Age Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. -- Times on Sunday


A work of dazzling imagination. &#8212; Independent <br> Holden's Performance is a triumph. &#8212; The Australian <br> Bail is a writer of great talent and extraordinary concentration. &#8212; Melbourne Age <br> Astonishing in its range . . . superbly written, much of it is like the click of a camera shutter in its sharpness and impassivity . . . extraordinarily wide-ranging and inventive. &#8212; Times on Sunday <br>


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Murray Bail's fiction, which includes Eucalyptus, Homesickness, The Drover's Wife and other Stories and Camouflage, has received many major awards, among them the Miles Franklin Award in Australia and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. He is also the author of the non-fiction works, Ian Fairweather and Longhand: A Writer's Notebook. He lives in Sydney

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