Border Distrubances by Gerald Murnane

I’d love to give you a spoiler alert here. But there are no spoilers in a review of a Gerald Murnane novel. Spoilers require a plot, and Murnane doesn’t do plot.

This is merely one of many quirks exhibited by our reclusive Australian novelist, sometimes mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. In his latest novel Border Districts, Murn…