The Lame Dog Man
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.
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
George Turner’s incisive 1967 novel dissects the complex boundaries of human charity and ego through the turbulent life of Jimmy Carlyon, a provincial employment officer with a compulsion for rescuing society's broken souls. Set within the claustrophobic social ecosystem of a small Australian country town, the narrative follows Jimmy as he entangles himself in the affairs of the local "lame dogs"—the eccentrics, the failures, and the misfits who rely on his bureaucratic and personal intervention. However, what begins as a seemingly altruistic crusade quickly devolves into a messy web of codependency and manipulation. When Jimmy attempts to reshape the destiny of a particularly volatile and ungrateful town outcast, he is forced to confront the uncomfortable truth behind his own savior complex and the collateral damage it inflicts on those he claims to help. Climaxing his acclaimed Treelake saga, The Lame Dog Man stands as a masterful specimen of mid-century Australian social realism and psychological acuity. Long before Turner achieved global renown as a grandmaster of science fiction, he was celebrated for these sharp, localized character studies that laid bare the colloquial speech, class anxieties, and moral ambiguities of rural Australian life. Turner's prose is characteristically unsparing yet deeply humane, dryly subverting the classic myth of bush mateship to explore the darker undercurrents of emotional dependence and small-town politics. This crisp, first-edition Cassell printing offers literary collectors a pristine artifact from a towering figure of Australian letters at the very peak of his realist period.
Author: George Turner
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Cassell Australia
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
George Turner’s incisive 1967 novel dissects the complex boundaries of human charity and ego through the turbulent life of Jimmy Carlyon, a provincial employment officer with a compulsion for rescuing society's broken souls. Set within the claustrophobic social ecosystem of a small Australian country town, the narrative follows Jimmy as he entangles himself in the affairs of the local "lame dogs"—the eccentrics, the failures, and the misfits who rely on his bureaucratic and personal intervention. However, what begins as a seemingly altruistic crusade quickly devolves into a messy web of codependency and manipulation. When Jimmy attempts to reshape the destiny of a particularly volatile and ungrateful town outcast, he is forced to confront the uncomfortable truth behind his own savior complex and the collateral damage it inflicts on those he claims to help. Climaxing his acclaimed Treelake saga, The Lame Dog Man stands as a masterful specimen of mid-century Australian social realism and psychological acuity. Long before Turner achieved global renown as a grandmaster of science fiction, he was celebrated for these sharp, localized character studies that laid bare the colloquial speech, class anxieties, and moral ambiguities of rural Australian life. Turner's prose is characteristically unsparing yet deeply humane, dryly subverting the classic myth of bush mateship to explore the darker undercurrents of emotional dependence and small-town politics. This crisp, first-edition Cassell printing offers literary collectors a pristine artifact from a towering figure of Australian letters at the very peak of his realist period.