Saturday Afternoon And Other Stories
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:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A quiet Saturday afternoon can hold more tension, longing, and revelation than a lifetime of grand events — and Neilma Sidney proves it with devastating precision in this collection of short fiction. Saturday Afternoon and Other Stories presents a series of finely observed vignettes of mid-twentieth-century Australian life, capturing the interior worlds of ordinary men and women navigating desire, displacement, and the subtle dramas of the everyday. Sidney — born into the prominent Baillieu family and writing under a pen name — brought a sharp, empathetic eye to the short story form, drawing comparisons to the finest practitioners of the genre. Her prose is clean and restrained, yet charged with an emotional intelligence that renders even the smallest domestic moment luminous. This collection stands as a significant, if underappreciated, contribution to Australian literary fiction of the postwar era, and leaves the reader wondering what further revelations lie just beneath the surface of an ordinary afternoon.
Author: Neilma Sidney
Format: Hardback
Published: 1959, F.W. Cheshire
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A quiet Saturday afternoon can hold more tension, longing, and revelation than a lifetime of grand events — and Neilma Sidney proves it with devastating precision in this collection of short fiction. Saturday Afternoon and Other Stories presents a series of finely observed vignettes of mid-twentieth-century Australian life, capturing the interior worlds of ordinary men and women navigating desire, displacement, and the subtle dramas of the everyday. Sidney — born into the prominent Baillieu family and writing under a pen name — brought a sharp, empathetic eye to the short story form, drawing comparisons to the finest practitioners of the genre. Her prose is clean and restrained, yet charged with an emotional intelligence that renders even the smallest domestic moment luminous. This collection stands as a significant, if underappreciated, contribution to Australian literary fiction of the postwar era, and leaves the reader wondering what further revelations lie just beneath the surface of an ordinary afternoon.