{"product_id":"last-letter-to-a-reader","title":"Last Letter to a Reader","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eLast Letter to a Reader\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eGerald Murnane\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781913505424\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAnd Other Stories\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane - perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose - began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is devoted to everything he has written. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the reports grew, however, they themselves took on the form of a book, \u003cem\u003ea book as beguiling and hallucinatory, in its way, as the works on which they were meant to report. \u003c\/em\u003eThese miniature memoirs or stories lead the reader through the capacious territory Murnane refers to as his mind: they dwell on the circumstances that gave rise to his writing, on images and associations, on Murnane's own theories of fiction, and then memories of a deeply personal kind. The final essay is, of course, on \u003cem\u003eLast Letter to a Reader\u003c\/em\u003e itself: it considers the elation and exhilaration that accompany the act of writing, and offers a moving finale to what must surely be Murnane's last work, as death approaches. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"And Other Stories","offers":[{"title":"Last Letter to a Reader | Gerald Murnane | Paperback | 9781913505424 | New | Essays 1669808","offer_id":50789380096258,"sku":"1669808","price":43.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/81eFFkaTgnL.jpg?v=1792303867","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/last-letter-to-a-reader","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}