Eucalyptus by Murray Bail

1999 Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. On a property in western New South Wales a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name all his species of eucalyptus, down to the last tree... Eucalyptus is a modern fairy tale and an unpredictable love story. Haunting and mesmeric, it illuminates the nature of story-telling itself. "Wonderful... brilliantly told... a moving, exhilarating love story. " Australian.

Publisher:	Text Publishing
Year:	2006
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9781875847945
Condition:	Good
Description:	Foxing to page edges; pencil notes on first page.

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SKU: 1596881
Location: Fiction