Goodbye, Melbourne Town
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Pages crisp and clean. Binding in good condition
A warmly nostalgic memoir, Goodbye Melbourne Town chronicles the early life of Graham McInnes as he comes of age in Australia during the 1920s and 1930s, painting a vivid portrait of Melbourne's social and cultural landscape between the wars. With sharp wit and affectionate detail, McInnes recounts his boyhood experiences navigating school, family, and the peculiarities of Australian suburban life, drawing on the same rich vein of autobiographical storytelling that distinguished his earlier memoir, The Road to Gundagai. The narrative captures the bittersweet tension of a young man preparing to leave behind the familiar world of his youth for broader horizons, lending the work both a coming-of-age energy and a gentle elegiac tone. McInnes writes with the eye of a keen observer and the voice of a natural storyteller, making this a compelling and humorous record of a vanished era in Australian life.
Author: Graham Mcinnes
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Hamish Hamilton
Genre: Australian history
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Pages crisp and clean. Binding in good condition
A warmly nostalgic memoir, Goodbye Melbourne Town chronicles the early life of Graham McInnes as he comes of age in Australia during the 1920s and 1930s, painting a vivid portrait of Melbourne's social and cultural landscape between the wars. With sharp wit and affectionate detail, McInnes recounts his boyhood experiences navigating school, family, and the peculiarities of Australian suburban life, drawing on the same rich vein of autobiographical storytelling that distinguished his earlier memoir, The Road to Gundagai. The narrative captures the bittersweet tension of a young man preparing to leave behind the familiar world of his youth for broader horizons, lending the work both a coming-of-age energy and a gentle elegiac tone. McInnes writes with the eye of a keen observer and the voice of a natural storyteller, making this a compelling and humorous record of a vanished era in Australian life.