The Angry Eye (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: worn with some shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Signed with inscription — handwritten dedication in red ink reading "Greetings! Max Harris, May 1976." Binding condition: Good.
Few voices in postwar Australian cultural life were as sharp, combative, or ceaselessly provocative as that of Max Harris — poet, publisher, bookseller, and critic. The Angry Eye collects Harris's penetrating essays and commentary, casting a sceptical and often caustic gaze over Australian society, its intellectual pretensions, its cultural cringe, and its uneasy relationship with modernity. Introduced by Rupert Murdoch, the volume situates Harris within the broader landscape of Australian public life, lending an additional layer of cultural intrigue to an already compelling collection. Harris writes with the conviction of a man who has spent decades at the centre of Australian literary controversy — most famously as a target of the Ern Malley hoax — and that hard-won authority pulses through every page. His prose is acerbic yet illuminating, dismantling comfortable orthodoxies with surgical precision. For readers drawn to the great tradition of the Australian essay, this collection remains an essential and startlingly frank document of a nation arguing with itself.
Author: Max Harris
Format: Hardback
Published: 1973, Pergamon Press Australia
Genre: Essays
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: worn with some shelf wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Signed with inscription — handwritten dedication in red ink reading "Greetings! Max Harris, May 1976." Binding condition: Good.
Few voices in postwar Australian cultural life were as sharp, combative, or ceaselessly provocative as that of Max Harris — poet, publisher, bookseller, and critic. The Angry Eye collects Harris's penetrating essays and commentary, casting a sceptical and often caustic gaze over Australian society, its intellectual pretensions, its cultural cringe, and its uneasy relationship with modernity. Introduced by Rupert Murdoch, the volume situates Harris within the broader landscape of Australian public life, lending an additional layer of cultural intrigue to an already compelling collection. Harris writes with the conviction of a man who has spent decades at the centre of Australian literary controversy — most famously as a target of the Ern Malley hoax — and that hard-won authority pulses through every page. His prose is acerbic yet illuminating, dismantling comfortable orthodoxies with surgical precision. For readers drawn to the great tradition of the Australian essay, this collection remains an essential and startlingly frank document of a nation arguing with itself.