Gerald Murnane

Gerald Murnane is the award-winning author of fifteen books in his native Australia. Known for his passion for horse racing and his refusal to travel outside Australia, Murnane lives in the remote village of Goroke in the northwest of Victoria, near the border with South Australia.

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On the Road to Bendigo

By Gerald Murnane

As a child, Gerald Murnane was enamored with scenery in film and in life — “the places safely behind the action.” Later he found a kindred spirit in the wayward eye of Kerouac’s On the Road.