All The Green Year
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Usual aging. Binding firm, jacket bright and pages clean.
A warmly nostalgic coming-of-age novel set in suburban Melbourne during the 1920s, All the Green Year chronicles the misadventures and youthful yearnings of fourteen-year-old Charlie Dowd as he navigates the joys and frustrations of adolescence. D.E. Charlwood draws on his own childhood memories to paint a vivid, affectionate portrait of Australian suburban life, capturing the rhythms of school, friendship, first love, and family with gentle humour and keen observation. The narrative unfolds with an episodic, sun-drenched charm that perfectly captures the bittersweet sensation of a long summer on the cusp of growing up. Widely regarded as a classic of Australian literature, it illustrates with quiet authenticity the universal experience of that fleeting, irretrievable season between childhood and adulthood.
Author: D.E. Charlwood
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Angus & Robertson Publishers
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Usual aging. Binding firm, jacket bright and pages clean.
A warmly nostalgic coming-of-age novel set in suburban Melbourne during the 1920s, All the Green Year chronicles the misadventures and youthful yearnings of fourteen-year-old Charlie Dowd as he navigates the joys and frustrations of adolescence. D.E. Charlwood draws on his own childhood memories to paint a vivid, affectionate portrait of Australian suburban life, capturing the rhythms of school, friendship, first love, and family with gentle humour and keen observation. The narrative unfolds with an episodic, sun-drenched charm that perfectly captures the bittersweet sensation of a long summer on the cusp of growing up. Widely regarded as a classic of Australian literature, it illustrates with quiet authenticity the universal experience of that fleeting, irretrievable season between childhood and adulthood.