| ISBN |
9780312427313 (paperback) |
| Name |
Bail, Murray, 1941- author. |
| Title |
Eucalyptus : a novel / Murray Bail. |
| Published |
New York : Picador, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2007] |
| ©1998 |
| Description |
255 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Notes |
Originally published by the Text Publishing Company, Australia. |
| Summary |
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 eucalyptus trees on his land, filling in the landscape, making a virtual outdoor museum of trees. When Ellen is nineteen, he announces his decision: she may marry only the man who can correctly name the species of each and every gum tree on his property. Suitors emerge from all corners, including the straight-backed Mr. Cave, a world expert on these famous Australian trees. And then one day, walking down by the river where silver light slants into the motionless trunks, Ellen chances on a strange young man resting under the Coolibah tree. In the days that follow, he tells her dozens of stories - set in cities, deserts, and faraway countries. |
| Subjects |
Eucalyptus -- Identification -- Fiction |
| Eucalyptus -- Australia -- Fiction |
| Storytelling -- Fiction |
| Fathers and daughters -- Fiction |
| Interpersonal relations -- Fiction |
| Australian fiction |
| Romance fiction |
| New South Wales -- Fiction |
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