Chosen People
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: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Original blue cloth, but the spine has sunned/faded to a grey-brown tone against the still-blue front and back boards. DJ: Complete, unclipped price present (7s. 6d. net); overall toning/browning on the spine panel; some loss along the edges. Pages: light foxing on prelims and book block. Markings: previous owner's plate glued to fep.
From the sun-drenched landscapes of Western Australia emerges a narrative of raw ambition, cultural collision, and the unrelenting human desire to belong. Chosen People by Seaforth Mackenzie — the pen name of Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie — chronicles the lives of ordinary Australians caught in the currents of a society grappling with identity, class, and the profound weight of community expectation, weaving together intimate personal drama with the broader social fabric of mid-twentieth-century life. Mackenzie, celebrated for his earlier semi-autobiographical novel The Young Desire It, brings to Chosen People the same lyrical precision and psychological acuity that marked him as one of Australia's most gifted and tragically overlooked prose stylists. His writing is both tender and unflinching, drawing readers into an interior world where social belonging and personal freedom stand in perpetual, aching conflict. For admirers of literary fiction with a rich sense of place and character, this volume presents a rare and compelling window into an author whose voice deserves far wider recognition than fortune allowed him.
Author: Seaforth Mackenzie
Format: Hardback
Published: 1938, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Original blue cloth, but the spine has sunned/faded to a grey-brown tone against the still-blue front and back boards. DJ: Complete, unclipped price present (7s. 6d. net); overall toning/browning on the spine panel; some loss along the edges. Pages: light foxing on prelims and book block. Markings: previous owner's plate glued to fep.
From the sun-drenched landscapes of Western Australia emerges a narrative of raw ambition, cultural collision, and the unrelenting human desire to belong. Chosen People by Seaforth Mackenzie — the pen name of Kenneth Seaforth Mackenzie — chronicles the lives of ordinary Australians caught in the currents of a society grappling with identity, class, and the profound weight of community expectation, weaving together intimate personal drama with the broader social fabric of mid-twentieth-century life. Mackenzie, celebrated for his earlier semi-autobiographical novel The Young Desire It, brings to Chosen People the same lyrical precision and psychological acuity that marked him as one of Australia's most gifted and tragically overlooked prose stylists. His writing is both tender and unflinching, drawing readers into an interior world where social belonging and personal freedom stand in perpetual, aching conflict. For admirers of literary fiction with a rich sense of place and character, this volume presents a rare and compelling window into an author whose voice deserves far wider recognition than fortune allowed him.