What he had been searching for was not the perfect religious order but the perfect landscape...From that moment on he was a poet in search of his ideal landscape.Lost to the world for more than four decades,A Season on Earthis the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane: the lyrical account of boyhood in his debut novel,Tamarisk Row, and the revolutionary prose ofThe Plains.A Season on Earthis Murnane's second novel as it was intended to be, bringing together all of its four sections—the first two of which were published asA Lifetime on Cloudsin 1976 and the last two of which have never been in print.A hilarious tale of a lustful teenager in 1950s Melbourne,A Lifetime on Cloudshas been considered an outlier in Murnane's fiction. That is because, as Murnane writes in his foreword, it is 'only half a book and Adrian Sherd only half a character'.Here, at...