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Border Districts

By: Gerald Murnane
Narrated by: Andrew Martin
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A man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, people, books, fictional characters, turns of phrase and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloguing his memories, little knowing what secrets they will yield and where his ‘report’ will lead.

Border Districts is a jewel of a farewell from one of the greatest living writers of English prose. Short-listed for the 2018 Miles Franklin Award on publication in Australia, this is Murnane’s first work to be published in the UK in 30 years.

©2019 Gerard Murnane (P)2019 Audible, Ltd Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Sadly, I found the audible performance stilted and emotionless, I would prefer to read this myself, as the narration was particularly flat and not engaging.

Unusual arms length writers voice, interesting but did not enjoy the narrator

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I am wondering if these ramblings will ever culminate in a great conclusive point.
Unfortunately I will never know as I feel I am just wasting the time I am listening to this, there is no entertainment, educational or cultural value.

I have abandoned this book, there just seems no point in carrying on.

Unfortunately, I will never know.

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deceptively simple and very beautiful text on the nature of memory via light and colour. rewards repeat readings in spades. good narration. wish there was more murnane here..

Beautiful

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Pained me to keep listening . I swore that if he said one more time, while I was writing the previous sentence, I would stamp on my iPhone. Fortunately, it just ended.

Unbelievably pretentious

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