Faraway
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Restlessness, romance, and the intoxicating call of the unknown drive J. B. Priestley's Faraway, a sweeping adventure novel that transports its characters — and its readers — to the remote, treasure-laden islands of the South Pacific. The story follows a disparate group of Britons united by a single, desperate quest: to locate a mysterious island rich with mineral wealth, as revealed in the dying confession of an old sea captain. Priestley masterfully blends the spirit of classic adventure with a sharp, ironic eye for the social tensions and personal failings of his characters, making the journey as much an inward voyage as an outward one. Faraway stands as a testament to Priestley's extraordinary versatility — the same pen that rendered the grim industrial north of England in The Good Companions here conjures sun-drenched seas and moral ambiguity with equal confidence. The novel's wit is never far beneath the surface, undercutting imperial ambition and human greed with a quietly devastating humour. Priestley argues, through his wanderers, that what men seek at the ends of the earth is often what they have refused to confront at home — a question that lingers long after the final page.
Author: J. B. Priestley
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Restlessness, romance, and the intoxicating call of the unknown drive J. B. Priestley's Faraway, a sweeping adventure novel that transports its characters — and its readers — to the remote, treasure-laden islands of the South Pacific. The story follows a disparate group of Britons united by a single, desperate quest: to locate a mysterious island rich with mineral wealth, as revealed in the dying confession of an old sea captain. Priestley masterfully blends the spirit of classic adventure with a sharp, ironic eye for the social tensions and personal failings of his characters, making the journey as much an inward voyage as an outward one. Faraway stands as a testament to Priestley's extraordinary versatility — the same pen that rendered the grim industrial north of England in The Good Companions here conjures sun-drenched seas and moral ambiguity with equal confidence. The novel's wit is never far beneath the surface, undercutting imperial ambition and human greed with a quietly devastating humour. Priestley argues, through his wanderers, that what men seek at the ends of the earth is often what they have refused to confront at home — a question that lingers long after the final page.