{"product_id":"2026100009009-secondhand-a-dutiful-daughter-signed","title":"A Dutiful Daughter (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st aus ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the humid, claustrophobic world of rural New South Wales, Thomas Keneally's A Dutiful Daughter presents one of Australian literature's most hauntingly original premises: a young woman, Damaris Glover, bound not merely by family obligation but by a grotesque, supernatural affliction that has transformed her parents from the waist down into cattle. This debut in the realm of the surreal chronicles Damaris's suffocating devotion to her monstrous, half-bovine parents, and her fraught relationship with a young man from the city whose arrival threatens to unravel the fragile, strange equilibrium of the Glover household.\n\nKeneally, who would later achieve global renown with Schindler's Ark, here demonstrates the audacious range of his literary imagination, weaving Catholic guilt, bodily shame, and the tyranny of filial duty into a narrative that is at once allegorical and viscerally unsettling. The novel argues that love and obligation can become indistinguishable from captivity, and that the most suffocating prisons are the ones we construct from devotion. A singular and deeply strange work in the Australian canon, it leaves the reader questioning where duty ends and self-destruction begins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49342781685979,"sku":"2026100009009-SECONDHAND","price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b5d55442-e596-4700-af82-affebfb1437c.png?v=1790049496","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009009-secondhand-a-dutiful-daughter-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}