Supporting A Column
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.
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A wit as sharp as a sub-editor's pencil and an eye for the absurdities of everyday Australian life — these are the hallmarks of Keith Dunstan's Supporting a Column, a celebrated collection drawn from one of Melbourne's most beloved newspaper columnists. The book chronicles Dunstan's observations of Australian society with warmth, irreverence, and an infectious comic sensibility, presenting a vivid panorama of mid-twentieth-century life as seen through the pages of the daily press. Dunstan, a titan of Australian journalism whose career spanned decades at the Herald and Sun News-Pictorial, illustrates the art of the column with a master's assurance — transforming the mundane into the memorable and the local into the universal. Published by Cassell Australia, Supporting a Column stands as both a testament to a vanishing era of print culture and a joyful reminder that great writing can be found in the most unexpected corners of a newspaper. For anyone who has ever savoured a perfectly turned phrase over their morning coffee, this volume will feel like a long-overdue reunion with an old friend.
Author: Keith Dunstan
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Cassell Australia
Genre: Australian history
Edition: First ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
A wit as sharp as a sub-editor's pencil and an eye for the absurdities of everyday Australian life — these are the hallmarks of Keith Dunstan's Supporting a Column, a celebrated collection drawn from one of Melbourne's most beloved newspaper columnists. The book chronicles Dunstan's observations of Australian society with warmth, irreverence, and an infectious comic sensibility, presenting a vivid panorama of mid-twentieth-century life as seen through the pages of the daily press. Dunstan, a titan of Australian journalism whose career spanned decades at the Herald and Sun News-Pictorial, illustrates the art of the column with a master's assurance — transforming the mundane into the memorable and the local into the universal. Published by Cassell Australia, Supporting a Column stands as both a testament to a vanishing era of print culture and a joyful reminder that great writing can be found in the most unexpected corners of a newspaper. For anyone who has ever savoured a perfectly turned phrase over their morning coffee, this volume will feel like a long-overdue reunion with an old friend.