The Extra
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 , ex-library
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A darkly comic and semi-autobiographical novel by one of Australia's most distinctive literary voices, The Extra chronicles the life of its protagonist through a series of vivid, sharply observed episodes that illuminate the absurdities and quiet tragedies of mid-twentieth-century Australian life. Hal Porter brings his characteristically ornate and precise prose style to bear on themes of identity, performance, and the outsider's role in society, presenting his narrator as a perpetual extra — a figure always on the margins of the main action. The novel illustrates Porter's gift for rendering social hypocrisy and human vanity with both wit and a cool, unsentimental eye. Rich in autobiographical detail and suffused with a tone that balances irony with genuine pathos, it stands as a compelling example of Australian modernist fiction at its most stylistically ambitious.
Author: Hal Porter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1975, Nelson
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good , ex-library
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A darkly comic and semi-autobiographical novel by one of Australia's most distinctive literary voices, The Extra chronicles the life of its protagonist through a series of vivid, sharply observed episodes that illuminate the absurdities and quiet tragedies of mid-twentieth-century Australian life. Hal Porter brings his characteristically ornate and precise prose style to bear on themes of identity, performance, and the outsider's role in society, presenting his narrator as a perpetual extra — a figure always on the margins of the main action. The novel illustrates Porter's gift for rendering social hypocrisy and human vanity with both wit and a cool, unsentimental eye. Rich in autobiographical detail and suffused with a tone that balances irony with genuine pathos, it stands as a compelling example of Australian modernist fiction at its most stylistically ambitious.