A Bachelor's Children (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: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; small tears with wear along the edges. Pages: Yellowed with light foxing on prelims. Binding remains tight. Board: square and clean.
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes A Bachelor's Children, a masterful collection of short stories that cuts to the quick of human nature with surgical precision and darkly comic flair. Hal Porter's narratives traverse the landscapes of mid-twentieth-century Australian life, conjuring vivid characters — lonely bachelors, sharp-tongued women, and restless souls — each caught in moments of revelation, regret, or quiet absurdity, bound together by the universal threads of longing and self-deception. Porter's prose is among the most distinctive in Australian letters: ornate, richly detailed, and laced with an irony that is at once affectionate and merciless. As a short story writer, he stands in the tradition of the great observers — a chronicler of social masks and the vulnerabilities hidden beneath them, drawing the reader into worlds rendered with almost painterly exactitude. A Bachelor's Children stands as essential reading for those who appreciate fiction that rewards close attention, leaving behind questions about identity, belonging, and the peculiar solitude of the human condition that linger long after the final page is turned.
Author: Hal Porter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Anthology
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; small tears with wear along the edges. Pages: Yellowed with light foxing on prelims. Binding remains tight. Board: square and clean.
From one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices comes A Bachelor's Children, a masterful collection of short stories that cuts to the quick of human nature with surgical precision and darkly comic flair. Hal Porter's narratives traverse the landscapes of mid-twentieth-century Australian life, conjuring vivid characters — lonely bachelors, sharp-tongued women, and restless souls — each caught in moments of revelation, regret, or quiet absurdity, bound together by the universal threads of longing and self-deception. Porter's prose is among the most distinctive in Australian letters: ornate, richly detailed, and laced with an irony that is at once affectionate and merciless. As a short story writer, he stands in the tradition of the great observers — a chronicler of social masks and the vulnerabilities hidden beneath them, drawing the reader into worlds rendered with almost painterly exactitude. A Bachelor's Children stands as essential reading for those who appreciate fiction that rewards close attention, leaving behind questions about identity, belonging, and the peculiar solitude of the human condition that linger long after the final page is turned.