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    Last Letter to a Reader by Gerald Murnane review – an elegiac but cantankerous swan song

    Nov 15, 2021 3 minutes

    In 1995, Australian author Gerald Murnane published what he thought would be his final work of fiction, Emerald Blue. He quit writing for 14 years. He returned with the novel Barley Patch in 2009, and since then has had an unexpected late-career resurgence, including seven new books and the Prime Minister’s Literary award for fiction.

    Murnane’s books are now published by highly respected publishers in Australia, the US and the UK, and he can count many high-profile authors among his admirers, including JM Coetzee, Ben Lerner, Teju Cole and a dedicated television segment on the ABC’s 7.30. By any measure, he is one of Australia’s most decoratedliving novelists.

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