{"product_id":"2026100008835-secondhand-harlands-half-acre","title":"Harland's Half Acre","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the sun-drenched landscapes of twentieth-century Queensland, Harland's Half Acre chronicles the turbulent life of Frank Harland, a visionary Australian painter whose obsessive dedication to his art comes at an enormous personal cost. Told through the eyes of Phil Vernon, a young lawyer drawn into Frank's orbit, the novel presents a sweeping portrait of a man consumed by a singular, almost mythological dream — to reclaim the ancestral land lost by his impoverished family — while the world around him shifts and fractures across decades of Australian history.\n\nDavid Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated prose stylists, constructs this narrative with a poet's precision and a novelist's command of time, memory, and place. The novel argues that the act of creation — whether of art or of self — is inseparable from loss, and that beauty is most often forged in deprivation. Malouf's lyrical, luminous prose transforms what might have been a conventional saga into something closer to myth, leaving the reader to wonder: what does a man truly possess when he has surrendered everything for a dream?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49336810504411,"sku":"2026100008835-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/14395017-6174-40b9-a844-83f53a5a7972.png?v=1789958352","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100008835-secondhand-harlands-half-acre","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}