The Glad Shout [Signed]
The Glad Shout [Signed]

The Glad Shout [Signed]

$20.00 AUD

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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: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Previous Owner on FEP. Light wear on top of spine on jacket.

A work of literary climate fiction, The Glad Shout chronicles the harrowing journey of Isobel, a young mother swept up in a catastrophic flood that devastates Melbourne, forcing her to navigate a fractured, post-disaster landscape in search of her missing daughter. Alice Robinson constructs a visceral and emotionally urgent narrative that unflinchingly confronts the human cost of environmental collapse, weaving together themes of motherhood, survival, and societal breakdown. The novel presents a near-future Australia rendered with striking realism, where the fragility of civilization is laid bare against the backdrop of climate-driven catastrophe. Taut and deeply affecting, it stands as a powerful meditation on what we stand to lose — both as individuals and as a society — when the natural world turns against us.

Author: Alice Robinson
Format: Hardback
Published: 2019, Affirm Press
Genre: Modern fiction

Description


Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Previous Owner on FEP. Light wear on top of spine on jacket.

A work of literary climate fiction, The Glad Shout chronicles the harrowing journey of Isobel, a young mother swept up in a catastrophic flood that devastates Melbourne, forcing her to navigate a fractured, post-disaster landscape in search of her missing daughter. Alice Robinson constructs a visceral and emotionally urgent narrative that unflinchingly confronts the human cost of environmental collapse, weaving together themes of motherhood, survival, and societal breakdown. The novel presents a near-future Australia rendered with striking realism, where the fragility of civilization is laid bare against the backdrop of climate-driven catastrophe. Taut and deeply affecting, it stands as a powerful meditation on what we stand to lose — both as individuals and as a society — when the natural world turns against us.