Harland's Half Acre (SIGNED)
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: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: signed bookplate.
In the sun-scorched landscapes of twentieth-century Australia, Harland's Half Acre chronicles the life of Frank Harland, a visionary painter whose consuming obsession with art and land drives him through poverty, isolation, and an almost mythic pursuit of belonging. David Malouf constructs a sweeping narrative that traces Frank's origins in the Queensland bush, following his journey across decades as he seeks to reclaim — through canvas and sheer will — a lost ancestral parcel of land that represents something far greater than mere property: identity, legacy, and the soul of a country. Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, writes with a lyrical precision that transforms the physical terrain of his homeland into a moral and spiritual landscape. His prose shimmers with an intense, poetic quality that rewards close reading, drawing on themes of memory, inheritance, artistic vocation, and the uneasy relationship between indigenous land and settler identity. A Booker Prize-shortlisted masterwork, Harland's Half Acre stands as a cornerstone of Australian literature — and a novel that leaves you questioning what it truly means to possess, or be possessed by, a place.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Alfred A. Knopf / Random House Australia
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: signed bookplate.
In the sun-scorched landscapes of twentieth-century Australia, Harland's Half Acre chronicles the life of Frank Harland, a visionary painter whose consuming obsession with art and land drives him through poverty, isolation, and an almost mythic pursuit of belonging. David Malouf constructs a sweeping narrative that traces Frank's origins in the Queensland bush, following his journey across decades as he seeks to reclaim — through canvas and sheer will — a lost ancestral parcel of land that represents something far greater than mere property: identity, legacy, and the soul of a country. Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, writes with a lyrical precision that transforms the physical terrain of his homeland into a moral and spiritual landscape. His prose shimmers with an intense, poetic quality that rewards close reading, drawing on themes of memory, inheritance, artistic vocation, and the uneasy relationship between indigenous land and settler identity. A Booker Prize-shortlisted masterwork, Harland's Half Acre stands as a cornerstone of Australian literature — and a novel that leaves you questioning what it truly means to possess, or be possessed by, a place.