A Fortunate Life
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
One of Australia's most beloved and enduring memoirs, A Fortunate Life is the remarkable true story of Albert Facey, a man who faced extraordinary hardship — abandonment, poverty, brutal labour, and the horrors of Gallipoli — yet chose to regard his life as fortunate. With disarming simplicity and quiet dignity, Facey chronicles his journey from a destitute childhood in the Western Australian outback to the blood-soaked shores of the Dardanelles and back again, presenting a life shaped not by bitterness, but by an indomitable spirit and an unshakeable love of country and family. First published in 1981 and illustrated here by the celebrated West Australian artist Robert Juniper, this autobiographical masterpiece holds a singular place in the canon of Australian literature. Facey's plain-spoken, unpretentious prose — written in his eighties with no formal education to speak of — carries a raw emotional power that no amount of literary artifice could replicate. A testament to resilience, humility, and the Australian character at its most authentic, it leaves the reader wondering: what does it truly mean to call a life fortunate?
Author: A. B. Facey
Format: Hardback
Published: 1983, Allen Lane
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Slipcase: Good
Pages: Good
One of Australia's most beloved and enduring memoirs, A Fortunate Life is the remarkable true story of Albert Facey, a man who faced extraordinary hardship — abandonment, poverty, brutal labour, and the horrors of Gallipoli — yet chose to regard his life as fortunate. With disarming simplicity and quiet dignity, Facey chronicles his journey from a destitute childhood in the Western Australian outback to the blood-soaked shores of the Dardanelles and back again, presenting a life shaped not by bitterness, but by an indomitable spirit and an unshakeable love of country and family. First published in 1981 and illustrated here by the celebrated West Australian artist Robert Juniper, this autobiographical masterpiece holds a singular place in the canon of Australian literature. Facey's plain-spoken, unpretentious prose — written in his eighties with no formal education to speak of — carries a raw emotional power that no amount of literary artifice could replicate. A testament to resilience, humility, and the Australian character at its most authentic, it leaves the reader wondering: what does it truly mean to call a life fortunate?