Poor Fellow My Country
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of Australia's Northern Territory in the years leading up to World War II, Poor Fellow My Country is an epic and uncompromising masterwork that chronicles the twilight of a nation's innocence through the eyes of Jeremy Delacy, a disillusioned cattleman and reluctant patriarch who watches helplessly as the land and its people are consumed by greed, racism, and colonial indifference. At its heart, the novel traces the fate of Prindy, a young half-Aboriginal boy of extraordinary spiritual sensitivity, whose journey becomes a devastating allegory for the destruction of Indigenous culture and the soul of Australia itself. Herbert constructs a vast, sprawling narrative — at over 850,000 words, the longest novel ever published in Australia — that pulses with both furious political anger and profound, elegiac tenderness. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country stands as Xavier Herbert's magnum opus and one of the most ambitious works in the entire Australian literary canon, a thunderous indictment of a nation's failure to reconcile with its First Peoples and its own brutal history. Herbert's prose is dense, lyrical, and unrelenting, weaving Aboriginal mythology, political satire, and intimate human tragedy into a tapestry of rare and devastating power. It is a book that demands — and rewards — total immersion, leaving the reader to wrestle with a single, haunting question: can a country ever truly know itself if it refuses to face what it has done?
Author: Xavier Herbert
Format: Paperback
Published: 1976, Fontana
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Slipcase: Worn
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of Australia's Northern Territory in the years leading up to World War II, Poor Fellow My Country is an epic and uncompromising masterwork that chronicles the twilight of a nation's innocence through the eyes of Jeremy Delacy, a disillusioned cattleman and reluctant patriarch who watches helplessly as the land and its people are consumed by greed, racism, and colonial indifference. At its heart, the novel traces the fate of Prindy, a young half-Aboriginal boy of extraordinary spiritual sensitivity, whose journey becomes a devastating allegory for the destruction of Indigenous culture and the soul of Australia itself. Herbert constructs a vast, sprawling narrative — at over 850,000 words, the longest novel ever published in Australia — that pulses with both furious political anger and profound, elegiac tenderness. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country stands as Xavier Herbert's magnum opus and one of the most ambitious works in the entire Australian literary canon, a thunderous indictment of a nation's failure to reconcile with its First Peoples and its own brutal history. Herbert's prose is dense, lyrical, and unrelenting, weaving Aboriginal mythology, political satire, and intimate human tragedy into a tapestry of rare and devastating power. It is a book that demands — and rewards — total immersion, leaving the reader to wrestle with a single, haunting question: can a country ever truly know itself if it refuses to face what it has done?