Something In The Blood
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: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the rugged and unforgiving landscape of colonial Australia, this literary novel chronicles the lives of two men bound together by obsession, violence, and the uneasy tensions of a society built on dispossession. Trevor Shearston's Something in the Blood presents a gripping narrative that uncovers the psychological and moral fractures running beneath the surface of frontier life, rendered in prose that is both precise and deeply atmospheric. The story moves with quiet, mounting suspense, illustrating how the past bleeds into the present and how inherited trauma shapes the choices of those caught in its grip. Shearston argues, through richly drawn characters and a meticulously researched historical setting, that the wounds of colonialism are not merely political but profoundly personal. A powerful and unsettling work of Australian fiction, it stands as a testament to the enduring consequences of a nation's foundational violence.
Author: Trevor Shearston
Format: Paperback
Published: 1979, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the rugged and unforgiving landscape of colonial Australia, this literary novel chronicles the lives of two men bound together by obsession, violence, and the uneasy tensions of a society built on dispossession. Trevor Shearston's Something in the Blood presents a gripping narrative that uncovers the psychological and moral fractures running beneath the surface of frontier life, rendered in prose that is both precise and deeply atmospheric. The story moves with quiet, mounting suspense, illustrating how the past bleeds into the present and how inherited trauma shapes the choices of those caught in its grip. Shearston argues, through richly drawn characters and a meticulously researched historical setting, that the wounds of colonialism are not merely political but profoundly personal. A powerful and unsettling work of Australian fiction, it stands as a testament to the enduring consequences of a nation's foundational violence.