Beachmasters
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 us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
Set against the lush yet volatile backdrop of a fictional South Pacific island, Beachmasters chronicles a doomed rebellion by a group of islanders and half-castes seeking independence from their colonial rulers — a desperate, chaotic uprising that lays bare the fault lines of race, power, and identity in a post-colonial world. With sharp, unsentimental precision, Thea Astley dissects the collision between indigenous culture and entrenched colonial authority, placing at the centre of the storm a cast of vivid, morally complex characters swept up in events far larger than themselves. Astley writes with a poet's ear and a satirist's eye, her prose dense with irony and dark wit — qualities that earned her a towering reputation as one of Australia's most formidable literary voices. Beachmasters stands as a piercing meditation on the illusions of freedom, the violence of history, and the tragic absurdity of men who mistake a gesture for a revolution. Readers who believe they understand who the true masters of this beach are may find the answer far more uncomfortable than they anticipated.
Author: Thea Astley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Viking
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st us ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
Set against the lush yet volatile backdrop of a fictional South Pacific island, Beachmasters chronicles a doomed rebellion by a group of islanders and half-castes seeking independence from their colonial rulers — a desperate, chaotic uprising that lays bare the fault lines of race, power, and identity in a post-colonial world. With sharp, unsentimental precision, Thea Astley dissects the collision between indigenous culture and entrenched colonial authority, placing at the centre of the storm a cast of vivid, morally complex characters swept up in events far larger than themselves. Astley writes with a poet's ear and a satirist's eye, her prose dense with irony and dark wit — qualities that earned her a towering reputation as one of Australia's most formidable literary voices. Beachmasters stands as a piercing meditation on the illusions of freedom, the violence of history, and the tragic absurdity of men who mistake a gesture for a revolution. Readers who believe they understand who the true masters of this beach are may find the answer far more uncomfortable than they anticipated.