{"product_id":"2026100009392-secondhand-the-education-of-young-donald","title":"The Education Of Young Donald","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: price clipped dj. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew coming-of-age memoirs capture the contradictions of mid-twentieth-century Australia with such razor-sharp clarity as Donald Horne's The Education of Young Donald. This candid and often darkly comic autobiography chronicles Horne's formative years — his upbringing in small-town New South Wales, his fractious relationships with family and authority figures, and his gradual awakening to the intellectual and social forces that would shape one of Australia's most provocative public thinkers. Written with the same penetrating wit that defined his landmark cultural critique The Lucky Country, Horne dissects the provincial attitudes, class anxieties, and educational failures of a society still finding its identity.\n\nHorne's prose is incisive and unsentimental, cutting through nostalgia to present a portrait of a young man at odds with the conformist world around him — a world he would spend a lifetime challenging. The memoir stands as both a personal reckoning and a broader indictment of Australian cultural complacency in the decades before post-war modernisation. For readers who know Horne as the man who famously coined The Lucky Country, this earlier work reveals the crucible in which that critical mind was forged — leaving one to wonder just how much of Australia's story is really Donald's story in disguise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203124043995,"sku":"2026100009392-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a828fbf1-7deb-4562-91f3-a0997ddfc491.png?v=1788144657","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009392-secondhand-the-education-of-young-donald","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}