The Boys In The Island
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:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Signed ephemera laid-in. Price clipped dj. Ex-lib plate on front pastedown.
Set against the rugged, sun-scorched landscapes of Tasmania, The Boys in the Island is a lyrical coming-of-age novel that chronicles the journey of Francis Cullen, a young man caught between the seductive pull of the wider world and the comforting yet suffocating embrace of his island home. Christopher Koch's debut novel captures the restless yearning of youth with an almost painful precision, presenting a portrait of adolescence defined by friendship, longing, and the inevitable collision with adult disillusionment. Drawing on the epigraph from Keats' The Fall of Hyperion, the novel situates itself firmly within a Romantic tradition, where the dreamer must ultimately reckon with reality. Koch's prose is rich with poetic sensibility and a deep attachment to the Tasmanian landscape, which becomes as much a character as the people who inhabit it. The novel argues that the island — beautiful and isolating in equal measure — is both a paradise and a prison, mirroring the inner world of its protagonist. First published in 1958, this quietly significant work announced the arrival of one of Australia's most thoughtful literary voices, whose later masterwork, The Year of Living Dangerously, would bring him international acclaim. Readers who value introspective, beautifully crafted fiction will find in these pages a story that lingers long after the final page is turned.
Author: Christopher Koch
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Signed ephemera laid-in. Price clipped dj. Ex-lib plate on front pastedown.
Set against the rugged, sun-scorched landscapes of Tasmania, The Boys in the Island is a lyrical coming-of-age novel that chronicles the journey of Francis Cullen, a young man caught between the seductive pull of the wider world and the comforting yet suffocating embrace of his island home. Christopher Koch's debut novel captures the restless yearning of youth with an almost painful precision, presenting a portrait of adolescence defined by friendship, longing, and the inevitable collision with adult disillusionment. Drawing on the epigraph from Keats' The Fall of Hyperion, the novel situates itself firmly within a Romantic tradition, where the dreamer must ultimately reckon with reality. Koch's prose is rich with poetic sensibility and a deep attachment to the Tasmanian landscape, which becomes as much a character as the people who inhabit it. The novel argues that the island — beautiful and isolating in equal measure — is both a paradise and a prison, mirroring the inner world of its protagonist. First published in 1958, this quietly significant work announced the arrival of one of Australia's most thoughtful literary voices, whose later masterwork, The Year of Living Dangerously, would bring him international acclaim. Readers who value introspective, beautifully crafted fiction will find in these pages a story that lingers long after the final page is turned.