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Published 1 November 1998
ISBN 9781875847945
Format Paperback
Extent 264pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $30.00

Eucalyptus



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Eucalyptus is a modern fairy tale and an unpredictable love story. Haunting and mesmeric, it illuminates the nature of story-telling itself.

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 . . .

Published 1 November 1998
ISBN 9781875847945
Format Paperback
Extent 264pp
AU Price $22.99
NZ Price $30.00

About the author

Murray Bail

Murray Bail lives in Sydney. His first book, The Drover’s Wife and Other Stories, was published in 1975. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. His most recent novel is The Voyage.

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Praise for Eucalyptus

Wonderful . . . brilliantly told . . . a moving, exhilarating love story

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