Holden's Performance - Couverture souple

"Very amusing, ironic and wise... a success, no doubt about it" (Sydney Morning Herald)

"A novel of epic proportions. It's not merely about characters and events, but also about shapes and landscapes, history and the future, fact and falsehood, light and darkness... He writes with a rare perception of the Australian struggle for a defineable identity in bold, inventive, often wildly funny prose" (David Rooney Time Out)

"The work of a dazzling imagination" (Kate Saunders Independent)

Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. He is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. Harvill Secker published his Notebooks in 2005. His novel Eucalyptus was awarded the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.