{"product_id":"2026100009375-secondhand-johnno-a-novel-signed","title":"Johnno: A Novel (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: DJ: slightly worn; faded spine. Boards: slightly worn spine. Binding remains tight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the sun-drenched, humid streets of wartime Brisbane and the bohemian wanderings of post-war Europe, Johnno chronicles the life of Dante, a quiet and bookish young man irresistibly drawn into the orbit of Johnno — a wild, charismatic, and self-destructive force of nature whose appetite for life seems both magnificent and doomed. David Malouf's debut novel, first published in 1975, is a searing portrait of male friendship, identity, and the painful gap between the life one imagines and the life one lives, rendered in prose of exceptional clarity and lyrical precision.\n\nWidely regarded as a landmark of Australian literature, Johnno presents a vivid and unflinching portrait of a nation in the process of defining itself, seen through the lens of two young men who could not be more different. Malouf's style — at once intimate and elegiac — draws on a rich autobiographical vein, investing every scene with a melancholy tenderness that lingers long after the final page. A meditation on memory, mortality, and the myths we construct around those we love, this novel asks whether we can ever truly know another person — or whether friendship itself is simply a story we tell ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49210254786779,"sku":"2026100009375-SECONDHAND","price":250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/aa6ea885-4887-434e-aade-0908e6203bb5.png?v=1788268117","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009375-secondhand-johnno-a-novel-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}