{"product_id":"stream-system-9780374126001","title":"Stream System","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStories from a mind-bending Australian master, a genius on the level of Beckett (Teju Cole)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever before available to readers in this hemisphere, these storiesoriginally published from 1985 to 2012offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, \u003ci\u003eStream System\u003c\/i\u003e runs from the haunting Land Deal, which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to Finger Web, which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to The Interior of Gaaldine, which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo one e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus \u0026 Giroux Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401907249495,"sku":"9780374126001","price":17.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780374126001.jpg?v=1730478846","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stream-system-9780374126001","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}