A Handful Of Pennies
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: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A richly observed work of autobiographical fiction, A Handful of Pennies chronicles Hal Porter's years spent living and working in Occupied Japan following World War II, offering an intimate portrait of a society caught between tradition and transformation. With his signature prose — precise, ornate, and laced with dark wit — Porter presents the lives of both the Japanese locals and the expatriate community with unflinching clarity and a sharp anthropological eye. The narrative uncovers the cultural tensions, personal encounters, and moral ambiguities that defined the Allied Occupation period, rendering the era with vivid, novelistic detail. Porter's gift for character study shines throughout, as he illustrates the humanity and strangeness of cross-cultural existence with equal measures of affection and irony.
Author: Hal Porter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1958, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A richly observed work of autobiographical fiction, A Handful of Pennies chronicles Hal Porter's years spent living and working in Occupied Japan following World War II, offering an intimate portrait of a society caught between tradition and transformation. With his signature prose — precise, ornate, and laced with dark wit — Porter presents the lives of both the Japanese locals and the expatriate community with unflinching clarity and a sharp anthropological eye. The narrative uncovers the cultural tensions, personal encounters, and moral ambiguities that defined the Allied Occupation period, rendering the era with vivid, novelistic detail. Porter's gift for character study shines throughout, as he illustrates the humanity and strangeness of cross-cultural existence with equal measures of affection and irony.