{"product_id":"2026100012507-secondhand-johnno-a-novel-signed","title":"Johnno: A Novel (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First Edition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: DJ: faded with minor mark and rubbing on the rear panel. Binding: slight lean to book; light rubbing on corners and spine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 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.\n\nDavid 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50948300079323,"sku":"2026100012507-SECONDHAND","price":250.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/0db44c10-2869-4325-8541-5393d4558a9a.png?v=1793103987","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100012507-secondhand-johnno-a-novel-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}