Poor Fellow My Country (In Slipcase)
de Herbert, Xavier
- Usado
- very good
- Tapa blanda
- Estado
- Very Good
- Librería
-
Benalla, Victoria, Australia
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Sobre este artículo
Sydney London: Collins Fontana Book, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1463 pages, includes glossary of aboriginal names and list of characters. Overseas customers please note the book weighs overs a kilo and will attract additional postage.The spine of the slipcase has a 7cm closed tear running vertically to the tail; it is also bumped and chipped at the edges and at the back, the head has been reinforced with clear tape. The body of the book has a small ownership stamp on the front end paper and a bookplate on the front paste down; up to page 48 the blank outer edge there's a small crease running vertically along the blank outer edge, a printer's fault, else the book appears unread. "In Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert returns to the region made his own in Capricornia: Northern Australia. Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; ...... Winner of the Miles Franklin award on first publication in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country is masterful storytelling, an epic in the truest sense.
Sinopsis
Poor Fellow My Country is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert. It is the longest Australian book ever written. Primarily, it is the story of Jeremy Delacy and his illegitimate grandson Prindy in the years leading up to World War II. It covers matter on Aboriginal affairs, Australian patriotism and nationalism; subjects also dealt with in Herbert's novel Capricornia.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Good Reading Second Hand Books
(AU)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 021525
- Título
- Poor Fellow My Country (In Slipcase)
- Autor
- Herbert, Xavier
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Soft cover
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- Editorial
- Collins Fontana Book
- Lugar de publicación
- Sydney London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1977
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Palabras clave
- ISBN 000006144705 Australian Literature
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Good Reading Second Hand Books
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Benalla, Victoria
Sobre Good Reading Second Hand Books
Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.
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