Johnno: A Novel (SIGNED)
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: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: faded with minor mark and rubbing on the rear panel. Binding: slight lean to book; light rubbing on corners and spine.
Set against the sun-drenched, sweat-soaked backdrop of wartime Brisbane, Johnno is a vivid and unflinching portrait of a wild, self-destructive friendship that haunts its narrator across decades and continents. The novel chronicles Dante, a quiet and introspective young man, and his irresistible orbit around Johnno — a reckless, larger-than-life figure who seems to embody everything Brisbane's stifling provincial life cannot contain. Their relationship, part admiration and part bewilderment, becomes the lens through which Malouf maps the texture of a lost Australian childhood and the ache of a world on the cusp of irreversible change. David Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, constructs this deceptively slim novel with the precision of a poet and the warmth of a born storyteller. Johnno argues that the people who most elude our understanding are often the ones who define us most completely, and Malouf's prose — luminous, precise, and quietly devastating — transforms a personal elegy into a meditation on memory, identity, and the myths we build around those we love. First published in 1975, it remains a cornerstone of Australian literature, and its final pages leave a silence that lingers long after the book is closed.
Author: David Malouf
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: DJ: faded with minor mark and rubbing on the rear panel. Binding: slight lean to book; light rubbing on corners and spine.
Set against the sun-drenched, sweat-soaked backdrop of wartime Brisbane, Johnno is a vivid and unflinching portrait of a wild, self-destructive friendship that haunts its narrator across decades and continents. The novel chronicles Dante, a quiet and introspective young man, and his irresistible orbit around Johnno — a reckless, larger-than-life figure who seems to embody everything Brisbane's stifling provincial life cannot contain. Their relationship, part admiration and part bewilderment, becomes the lens through which Malouf maps the texture of a lost Australian childhood and the ache of a world on the cusp of irreversible change. David Malouf, one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, constructs this deceptively slim novel with the precision of a poet and the warmth of a born storyteller. Johnno argues that the people who most elude our understanding are often the ones who define us most completely, and Malouf's prose — luminous, precise, and quietly devastating — transforms a personal elegy into a meditation on memory, identity, and the myths we build around those we love. First published in 1975, it remains a cornerstone of Australian literature, and its final pages leave a silence that lingers long after the book is closed.