Prelude To Waking: A Novel In The First Person And Parentheses
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Moderate marks and flecks on boards. Unclipped dj, worn with some loss.
Beneath the deceptively intimate structure of a first-person narrative, Prelude to Waking presents a boldly experimental portrait of Australian life and consciousness, written under the celebrated pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin — now widely attributed to Miles Franklin, one of Australia's most significant literary figures. The novel unfolds through a layered, parenthetical style that deliberately blurs the boundaries between memoir, fiction, and social commentary, drawing the reader into a richly subjective world where identity, belonging, and nationhood are held up for quiet but incisive scrutiny. Published by Angus and Robertson — the preeminent house of Australian letters — the work stands as part of Franklin's ambitious, pseudonymous cycle of novels chronicling the pastoral and social fabric of the Australian squattocracy. Her prose, at once lyrical and sharply observational, argues for a distinctly Australian literary voice at a time when such a claim was itself an act of cultural defiance. For readers curious about the origins of Australian modernism, or those drawn to fiction that wears its formal ambition lightly, Prelude to Waking remains a quietly radical text waiting to be rediscovered.
Author: Brent Of Bin Bin (Miles Franklin)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1950, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Moderate marks and flecks on boards. Unclipped dj, worn with some loss.
Beneath the deceptively intimate structure of a first-person narrative, Prelude to Waking presents a boldly experimental portrait of Australian life and consciousness, written under the celebrated pseudonym Brent of Bin Bin — now widely attributed to Miles Franklin, one of Australia's most significant literary figures. The novel unfolds through a layered, parenthetical style that deliberately blurs the boundaries between memoir, fiction, and social commentary, drawing the reader into a richly subjective world where identity, belonging, and nationhood are held up for quiet but incisive scrutiny. Published by Angus and Robertson — the preeminent house of Australian letters — the work stands as part of Franklin's ambitious, pseudonymous cycle of novels chronicling the pastoral and social fabric of the Australian squattocracy. Her prose, at once lyrical and sharply observational, argues for a distinctly Australian literary voice at a time when such a claim was itself an act of cultural defiance. For readers curious about the origins of Australian modernism, or those drawn to fiction that wears its formal ambition lightly, Prelude to Waking remains a quietly radical text waiting to be rediscovered.