Abstract

AUSTRALIA

Early on in Murray Bail's award-winning first novel Homesickness (Macmillan), there's a witty echoing of the desire Patrick White professed in 1958 to give the Australian novel the textures of paint and music, and to reject what he saw as its journalistic 'realism'. Bail centres on a group of tourists on that Australian institution, the World Discovery Tour:

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