Tamarisk RowBased on Murnane's own early years growing up in the Victorian country town of Bendigo, Tamarisk Row is an unsparing evocation of an impoverished Catholic childhood in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1974, and out of print for almost twenty years, Tamarisk Row is Murnane's first novel, and in many respects, his masterpiece. Not only because of its rich social tapestry and its evocation of the Australian landscape, but because it does magical