{"product_id":"9781922148506","title":"A Lifetime on Clouds","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s, the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEarnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart and fathering eleven children by her. He even dreams a history of the world as a chronicle of sexual frustration.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Lifetime on Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e is funny, honest and sweetly told: a less ribald, Catholic Australian \u003ci\u003ePortnoy's Complaint\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Murnane\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Melbourne in 1939. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eTamarisk Row\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1974. It was followed by \u003ci\u003eA Lifetime on Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Plains\u003c\/i\u003e and five other works of fiction, the most recent of which is \u003ci\u003eA History of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. In 1999 he won the Patrick White Award. Ten years later he won the Melbourne Prize for Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Unquestionably one of the most original writers working in Australia today.' \u003ci\u003eAustralian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eA Lifetime on Clouds\u003c\/i\u003e delighted me: I was particularly admiring of the author's unfailing ability to say just enough and no more.' Les Murray, \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Murnane draws out a great deal of comedy from the distance between what his hero does and what he dreams.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'If you only ever read one Gerald Murnane novel in your life, I urge you to make it this one.' Andy Griffiths, in his introduction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47166033821936,"sku":"9781922148506","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922148506_p0.jpg?v=1763633410","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922148506","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}