In The Sun
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.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Foxing on block - does not extend internally. Wear and tear of external dust jacket. Yellowing and spotting of external dust jacket. Shelf wear on binding.
A work of Australian mid-twentieth century fiction, In the Sun by Margaret Trist presents a quiet yet incisive portrait of everyday life in Queensland, capturing the rhythms, relationships, and tensions of ordinary Australians with warmth and understated realism. Trist chronicles the lives of her characters with a keen observational eye, illuminating the social fabric of a community shaped by heat, landscape, and human longing. Her prose carries a gentle but assured tone, grounding even the most mundane moments in emotional authenticity. Regarded as part of a broader tradition of Australian domestic realism, the novel illustrates how the personal and the regional intersect in ways that resonate far beyond their immediate setting.
Author: Margaret Trist
Format: Hardback
Published: 1944, Harper & Bros., NY
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Foxing on block - does not extend internally. Wear and tear of external dust jacket. Yellowing and spotting of external dust jacket. Shelf wear on binding.
A work of Australian mid-twentieth century fiction, In the Sun by Margaret Trist presents a quiet yet incisive portrait of everyday life in Queensland, capturing the rhythms, relationships, and tensions of ordinary Australians with warmth and understated realism. Trist chronicles the lives of her characters with a keen observational eye, illuminating the social fabric of a community shaped by heat, landscape, and human longing. Her prose carries a gentle but assured tone, grounding even the most mundane moments in emotional authenticity. Regarded as part of a broader tradition of Australian domestic realism, the novel illustrates how the personal and the regional intersect in ways that resonate far beyond their immediate setting.