Memoirs Of An Old Bastard: Being A Portrait Of A City An Epicurean Chronicle Fantasia And Search
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Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
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A raucous and irreverent work of Australian literary fiction, Memoirs of an Old Bastard: Being a Portrait of a City an Epicurean Chronicle Fantasia and Search chronicles the life and obsessions of an aging, pleasure-seeking narrator whose wanderings through Melbourne serve as both personal confession and vivid urban portrait. Jack Hibberd, celebrated for his sharp wit and theatrical sensibility, presents a narrative that is part memoir, part fantasia, blending sharp social satire with a deep, sensuous love of food, drink, and city life. The tone is gleefully irreverent and richly comic, shot through with the kind of larrikin intelligence that has long defined Hibberd's voice in Australian letters. The result is an epicurean odyssey that illustrates the textures of a city and an era with boisterous affection and unflinching candor.
Author: Jack Hibberd
Format: Hardback
Published: 1989, McPhee Gribble Publishers
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
A raucous and irreverent work of Australian literary fiction, Memoirs of an Old Bastard: Being a Portrait of a City an Epicurean Chronicle Fantasia and Search chronicles the life and obsessions of an aging, pleasure-seeking narrator whose wanderings through Melbourne serve as both personal confession and vivid urban portrait. Jack Hibberd, celebrated for his sharp wit and theatrical sensibility, presents a narrative that is part memoir, part fantasia, blending sharp social satire with a deep, sensuous love of food, drink, and city life. The tone is gleefully irreverent and richly comic, shot through with the kind of larrikin intelligence that has long defined Hibberd's voice in Australian letters. The result is an epicurean odyssey that illustrates the textures of a city and an era with boisterous affection and unflinching candor.