‘[A Season on Earth is] an ideal jumping-off point for readers new to Murnane and his particular way of looking at the world.’
Books+Publishing (five-star review)
‘‘No living Australian writer…has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction.’
Sydney Morning Herald
‘‘Unquestionably one of the most original writers working in Australia today.’
Australian
‘‘A writer of the greatest skill and tonal control.’
Financial Times
‘‘Reading Murnane, one cares less about what is happening in the story and more about what one is thinking about as one reads. The effect of his writing is to induce images in the reader’s own mind, and to hold the reader inside a world in which the reader is at every turn encouraged to turn his or her attention to those fast flocking images.’
New York Times
‘‘Murnane’s is a vision that blesses and beatifies every detail.’
Washington Post
‘‘A careful stylist and a slyly comic writer with large ideas.’
Robyn Cresswell, Paris Review
‘‘The Plains is a bizarre masterpiece that can feel less like something you’ve read than something you’ve dreamed.’
Ben Lerner, New Yorker
‘‘Murnane, a genius, is a worthy heir to Beckett.’
Teju Cole, Guardian