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'Adrian Sherd is a teenage boy in Melbourne of the 1950s—the last years before television and the family car changed suburbia forever.
'Earnest and isolated, tormented by his hormones and his religious devotion, Adrian dreams of elaborate orgies with American film stars, and of marrying his sweetheart and fathering eleven children by her. He even dreams a history of the world as a chronicle of sexual frustration.
'A Lifetime on Clouds is funny, honest and sweetly told: a less ribald, Catholic Australian Portnoy’s Complaint.' (Publication summary : Text Classics)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Two Very Different Adolescent Lives
single work
review
— Review of A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel -
Troubled by Impossible Dreams : Fantasy and Desire in Gerald Murnane's A Lifetime on Clouds
2013
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 27 no. 2 2013; (p. 189-193) 'While critics have at times considered Gerald Murnane's second novel A Lifetime on Clouds one of his lesser achievements, it remains eminently engaging. Here, Andersson propose a reading of the novel as not only a key text in the Murnane canon, but also as a novel that evocatively typifies some of the key contradictions in the political and historical context from which it emerged. He suggests that this novel functions as a symptom of a particular moment in the history of the Western world. Also, he will link the conclusion of Murnane's novel to another modern conception of power in the mid-seventies. ' (Publication abstract) -
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2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 4 November 2013; (p. 13)
— Review of A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel -
Deadpan Treatment of Adolescent Auto-Erotic Journeys
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 3 November 2013; (p. 13)
— Review of A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel -
A Singular Pleasure
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 October 2013; (p. 24-25)
— Review of A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel 'Andy Griffiths welcomes the reissue of a fearless account of adolescent angst.'
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Structural Strictures: Some Recent Fiction Considered
1977
single work
review
— Appears in: Meanjin , Winter vol. 36 no. 2 1977; (p. 246-252)
— Review of The Glass Canoe 1976 single work novel ; The Misery of Beauty : The Loves of Frogman 1976 single work novel ; Die Anstalt 1974 single work novel ; A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel -
Murnane on a Literary Track
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian Magazine , 21-22 June 1986; (p. 15)
— Review of A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel ; Blood in the Rain 1986 single work novel -
An Awkward Crossing from Dream Life to Real Life
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 August 1986; (p. B4)
— Review of A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel -
Two Very Different Adolescent Lives
single work
review
— Review of A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel -
The Year's Best Reading
1977
single work
review
— Appears in: The National Times , 5-10 December 1977; (p. 61)
— Review of A Lifetime on Clouds 1976 single work novel ; Thoroughly Decent People : A Folktale 1976 single work novel ; The Visit 1977 single work novel Also discusses Andrew Field's biography of Vladimir Nabokov, Nabokov : His Life in Part . -
Gerald Murnane : Exploring the Real Country
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004; (p. 145-194) -
Gerald Murnane's Travels into Regions Assumed to Be Known : The Child Constructs the World
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Murnane 1987; (p. 25-27) -
An Interview with Gerald Murnane
Ludmilla Forsyth
(interviewer),
1987
single work
interview
— Appears in: Murnane 1987; (p. 42-68) -
Gerald Murnane's Tasmania : Island in a Dream Atlas
1987
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Fine Line , September no. 2 1987; (p. 38-44) -
Inner Australia : The Novels of Gerald Murnane
1985
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Colonisations : Rencontres Australie-Canada 1985; (p. 97-107)
Last amended 8 May 2018 09:38:19
Subjects:
- Melbourne, Victoria,
Settings:
- 1950s
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