Back To Bool Bool
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: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the sweeping pastoral landscapes of the Monaro and the social intrigues of Oceania's archipelagos, Back to Bool Bool is a rambunctious novel that reunites several prominent characters whose lives remain inextricably bound to the grand Bool Bool estate and its turbulent legacy. Written under the celebrated pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin — widely accepted as the pen name of Australian literary icon Miles Franklin — the novel crackles with sharp wit, colonial drama, and the kind of fierce, unapologetic love for the Australian bush that defined Franklin's most enduring work. A continuation of the acclaimed Bool Bool saga, this volume illustrates the tensions between old-world pastoral values and the encroaching forces of modernity, presenting a richly populated cast whose ambitions, loyalties, and heartbreaks play out across a vividly rendered antipodean world. Franklin's prose, whether attributed to her directly or filtered through her famous alias, is characterised by a sardonic intelligence and an intimate knowledge of Australian rural society that few writers of her era could match. Readers who have followed the saga will find this instalment both a satisfying return and a tantalising deepening of the world Franklin so masterfully chronicles — one that lingers long after the final page is turned.
Author: Brent Of Bin Bin
Format: Hardback
Published: 1956, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Set against the sweeping pastoral landscapes of the Monaro and the social intrigues of Oceania's archipelagos, Back to Bool Bool is a rambunctious novel that reunites several prominent characters whose lives remain inextricably bound to the grand Bool Bool estate and its turbulent legacy. Written under the celebrated pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin — widely accepted as the pen name of Australian literary icon Miles Franklin — the novel crackles with sharp wit, colonial drama, and the kind of fierce, unapologetic love for the Australian bush that defined Franklin's most enduring work. A continuation of the acclaimed Bool Bool saga, this volume illustrates the tensions between old-world pastoral values and the encroaching forces of modernity, presenting a richly populated cast whose ambitions, loyalties, and heartbreaks play out across a vividly rendered antipodean world. Franklin's prose, whether attributed to her directly or filtered through her famous alias, is characterised by a sardonic intelligence and an intimate knowledge of Australian rural society that few writers of her era could match. Readers who have followed the saga will find this instalment both a satisfying return and a tantalising deepening of the world Franklin so masterfully chronicles — one that lingers long after the final page is turned.