'Poor Fellow My Country is an Australian classic, perhaps THE Australian classic' - The Times Literary Supplement. From Australia's oldest publisher comes the longest Australian novel ever published. The winner of the 1975 Miles Franklin Award is now back in print with a new introduction by Russell McDougall. 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; but it ...
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'Poor Fellow My Country is an Australian classic, perhaps THE Australian classic' - The Times Literary Supplement. From Australia's oldest publisher comes the longest Australian novel ever published. The winner of the 1975 Miles Franklin Award is now back in print with a new introduction by Russell McDougall. 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; but it is not so much a tale of this period as Herbert's analysis and indictment of the steps by which we came to the Australia of today. Herbert parallels an intimate personal narrative with a tale of approaching war and the disconnect between modern Australia and its first inhabitants. With enduring portraits of a large cast of local and international characters, Herbert paints a scene of racial, familial and political disparity. He lays bare the paradoxes of this wild land, both old and wise, young and flawed. Winner of the Miles Franklin award on first publication in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country is masterful storytelling, an epic in the truest sense. This is the decisive story of how Australia threw away her chance of becoming a true commonwealth and it is undoubtedly Herbert's supreme contribution to Australian literature. Will we ever reach the dream of 'Australia Felix' - the happy south land?
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VG. 1980, first US Printing. Binding solid, pages lightly age toned but crisp and clean with a few bumped and bent page tips. Fly page has 2 yellowed shadows where tape was. Dust jacket has a few small nicks, a repaired tear, along with some light scuffs and dents. Extremities rubbed and lightly bumped.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Collins, 1975. Heavy book: NO international or priority orders. Gift note inked on front flyleaf, otherwise a tight, square, clean hardcover in a jacket. Full cloth binding. 1463pp. Lightly rubbed jacket now in a new mylar cover. Novel set in 1930s and 1940s Australia. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall.
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Very Good. No Jacket. 1463 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. This Book Is The Decisive Story Of How In Those Vital Years, Australia Threw Away Her Chance Of Becoming A True Commonwealth.
