Eucalyptus: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999
Author(s): Murray Bail
On a country property a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of species of gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name each eucalypt, down to the last tree! A modern fairy tale!
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Winner of Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1999 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 1999.
Born in Adelaide in 1941, Murray Bail now lives in Sydney. His fiction, which includes Eucalyptus, Holden's Performance, Homesickness and The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, has won a number of major awards.
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- : Text Publishing Co
- : The Text Publishing Company
- : 01 August 2009
- : Australia
- : 01 February 2015
- : books
Special Fields
- : Modern fiction
- : 272
- : A823.3
- : 2
- : Paperback
- : Murray Bail