{"product_id":"9781623650735","title":"The Voyage","description":"Murray Bail is best known for his internationally best-selling novel \u003ci\u003eEucalyptus\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year and winner of the 1999 Miles Franklin Award. \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e wrote that Bail's writing \"exhibit(s) a surfeit of imagination, skill and style... (they contain) stories within stories, of enigmatic characters and sly questions with many possible answers.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e, Piano manufacturer and salesman Frank Delage travels to Vienna from Sydney, hoping to introduce a new design to replace the respected old pianos of Europe. He walks the great musical city, offering an impassioned defense of his piano's technical superiority to any who will hear it. When his ambitions are ignored by the city's staid musical elite, Delage's finds his situation suddenly transformed by a chance meeting with Amalia von Schalla, an elegant grande dame of Viennese society. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow sailing home to Australia aboard the container ship \u003ci\u003eRomance\u003c\/i\u003e with his new bride, Amalia's daughter Elisabeth von Schalla, Delage and his story begin to come to light in a hypnotic sequence of memories, voices, and snatches of conversations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBail's prose sidewinds like a slipstream as Delage's story moves between the glittering society of the von Schalla's Vienna and the rough landscape of Australia. \u003ci\u003eThe Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e is delightfully Joycean--conveying a sensuous physicality and the immediacy emotion, as well as revealing a great basin of interior life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Voyage\u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, WA Premier's Book Awards, and the Queensland Literary Awards.","brand":"Quercus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139394191600,"sku":"9781623650735","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781623650735_p0.jpg?v=1763863288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781623650735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}