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Murray Bail is a writer born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1941.
He is most well known for his novel Eucalyptus that won the Miles Franklin Award in 1999.
His other work includes the novels Homesickness and Holden's Performance, short story collections The Drover's Wife and Camouflage, an art history on Ian Fairweather, Longhand: A Writer's Notebook and Notebooks 1970-2003.
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Poking Fun At The 'Stuff White People Like'
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:12:00 -0400
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Australian Authors: Murray Bail - Biography and list of works.
Complete Review: Murray Bail - Overview of the Australian writer's life and work, with links to extensive reviews.
Meta Description: [ Murray Bail at the Complete Review: information about Murray Bail and links to reviews of Murray Bail's books ]
Murray Bail's Eucalyptus - Review of this quirky Australian fairy tale.
Meta Description: [ When Holland's wife dies in childbirth and an insurance payment makes him wealthy, he buys a farm outside a small town in western New South Wales, where he plants eucalypts, collecting hundreds of different species from all over the country... ]
Murray Bail's Homesickness - A review of Bail's unusual novel about an Australian tour group travelling the world.
Meta Description: [ Thirteen Australians travel the world, visiting Africa, Britain, Ecuador, the United States, and Russia... ]
