A Bohemian Affair: Short Stories
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Tears around edges of jacket but otherwise still structural. Pages clean. Binding tight.
A collection of short fiction rooted in mid-twentieth-century Australian literary culture, Ray Mathew's A Bohemian Affair presents a series of intimate, character-driven stories that illuminate the lives of artists, dreamers, and social outsiders navigating love, identity, and creative ambition. Mathew, a celebrated Australian poet and playwright, brings a lyrical sensibility to his prose, crafting narratives that pulse with emotional honesty and a keen eye for human contradiction. Each story captures the restless spirit of bohemian life — its freedoms and its loneliness — with a tone that is at once tender and unsentimental. The collection stands as a testament to Mathew's versatility as a writer and his enduring interest in the margins of society where art and ordinary life intersect.
Author: Ray Mathew
Format: Hardback
Published: 1961, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Anthology
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Tears around edges of jacket but otherwise still structural. Pages clean. Binding tight.
A collection of short fiction rooted in mid-twentieth-century Australian literary culture, Ray Mathew's A Bohemian Affair presents a series of intimate, character-driven stories that illuminate the lives of artists, dreamers, and social outsiders navigating love, identity, and creative ambition. Mathew, a celebrated Australian poet and playwright, brings a lyrical sensibility to his prose, crafting narratives that pulse with emotional honesty and a keen eye for human contradiction. Each story captures the restless spirit of bohemian life — its freedoms and its loneliness — with a tone that is at once tender and unsentimental. The collection stands as a testament to Mathew's versatility as a writer and his enduring interest in the margins of society where art and ordinary life intersect.