Here's Luck
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 6th ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
First published in 1930, Here's Luck by Lennie Lower stands as one of the most beloved comic novels in Australian literary history — a riotous, anarchic celebration of suburban chaos that has kept readers laughing for generations. The story follows Stanley Gudgeon, a well-meaning but gloriously hapless Sydney man whose comfortable domestic world is thrown into spectacular disorder when his wife walks out, leaving him in the dubious care of his irresponsible, freeloading son Woggo. What unfolds is a breathless series of misadventures fuelled by alcohol, misunderstanding, and the spectacular failure of every male instinct for self-preservation. Lennie Lower, a celebrated Australian humourist and newspaper columnist, wrote with a sharp, irreverent wit that captured the larrikin spirit of Depression-era Australia with unerring precision. Here's Luck is not merely a comedy of domestic errors — it is a cultural document, a portrait of working-class Australian masculinity rendered with affection and gleeful mockery in equal measure. Lower's prose crackles with colloquial energy and perfectly timed absurdity, earning the novel its enduring reputation as the great Australian comic classic. Whether Stanley will survive his own freedom — or be destroyed by it — is a question that will keep you turning pages long into the night.
Author: L. W. Lower
Format: Hardback
Published: 1937, Angus & Robertson Limited
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 6th ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
First published in 1930, Here's Luck by Lennie Lower stands as one of the most beloved comic novels in Australian literary history — a riotous, anarchic celebration of suburban chaos that has kept readers laughing for generations. The story follows Stanley Gudgeon, a well-meaning but gloriously hapless Sydney man whose comfortable domestic world is thrown into spectacular disorder when his wife walks out, leaving him in the dubious care of his irresponsible, freeloading son Woggo. What unfolds is a breathless series of misadventures fuelled by alcohol, misunderstanding, and the spectacular failure of every male instinct for self-preservation. Lennie Lower, a celebrated Australian humourist and newspaper columnist, wrote with a sharp, irreverent wit that captured the larrikin spirit of Depression-era Australia with unerring precision. Here's Luck is not merely a comedy of domestic errors — it is a cultural document, a portrait of working-class Australian masculinity rendered with affection and gleeful mockery in equal measure. Lower's prose crackles with colloquial energy and perfectly timed absurdity, earning the novel its enduring reputation as the great Australian comic classic. Whether Stanley will survive his own freedom — or be destroyed by it — is a question that will keep you turning pages long into the night.