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Copyright © Gerald Murnane, 2019
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Published by The Text Publishing Company, 2019 (A Lifetime on Clouds first published by William Heinemann, Australia, 1976)
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Front-cover image by Neville Bowler / Fairfax Syndication
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ISBN: 9781925773347 (hardback)
ISBN: 9781925774160 (ebook)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia.