A Bachelor's Children: Short Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
In the tradition of Australian literary fiction, A Bachelor's Children presents a masterfully crafted collection of short stories that cast a sharp, unflinching eye on the peculiarities of human nature — the lonely, the eccentric, the quietly desperate — rendered with a precision that is both unsettling and deeply compelling. Hal Porter's characters inhabit a world of social performance and private anguish, navigating the tensions between appearance and reality, belonging and isolation, in mid-twentieth-century Australia. Porter, one of Australia's most distinctively styled prose writers, brings to this collection his signature baroque sensibility — a richly ornate yet controlled voice that transforms the mundane into the extraordinary. His writing chronicles the subtleties of class, identity, and repression with a sardonic wit and an acute observer's eye that drew frequent comparisons to the great British short story masters. A Bachelor's Children stands as essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the full, complex range of Australian literary achievement — and to discover why Porter's work continues to demand rediscovery.
Author: Hal Porter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Anthology
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: price clipped dj.
In the tradition of Australian literary fiction, A Bachelor's Children presents a masterfully crafted collection of short stories that cast a sharp, unflinching eye on the peculiarities of human nature — the lonely, the eccentric, the quietly desperate — rendered with a precision that is both unsettling and deeply compelling. Hal Porter's characters inhabit a world of social performance and private anguish, navigating the tensions between appearance and reality, belonging and isolation, in mid-twentieth-century Australia. Porter, one of Australia's most distinctively styled prose writers, brings to this collection his signature baroque sensibility — a richly ornate yet controlled voice that transforms the mundane into the extraordinary. His writing chronicles the subtleties of class, identity, and repression with a sardonic wit and an acute observer's eye that drew frequent comparisons to the great British short story masters. A Bachelor's Children stands as essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the full, complex range of Australian literary achievement — and to discover why Porter's work continues to demand rediscovery.