{"product_id":"2026200011729-secondhand-for-love-alone","title":"For Love Alone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the sun-drenched harbourside of pre-war Sydney and the grey literary circles of London, For Love Alone chronicles the fierce, consuming journey of Teresa Hawkins — a brilliant, restless young woman who starves herself and saves every penny to follow a man she is not sure she even loves across the world, driven by a hunger for life that no one around her can understand. Christina Stead presents a portrait of female desire so raw and unrelenting that it reads less like a novel and more like a confession, tracking Teresa's passage from the suffocating domesticity of her father's household to the intellectual and erotic freedoms she pursues with single-minded, almost terrifying devotion.\n\nStead writes with a lyrical ferocity that sets her apart from her contemporaries, weaving sharp social observation with an almost Lawrentian intensity of feeling — her prose simultaneously beautiful and merciless. For Love Alone, first published in 1944, stands as one of the great overlooked masterworks of twentieth-century literature, a blazing argument for a woman's right to self-determination at a time when such a claim was still radical. For readers who believe they have exhausted the canon of feminist fiction, Stead's novel arrives as a revelation — and a challenge.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130865950939,"sku":"2026200011729-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/b5a56a2f-fc8b-49b6-a4f1-9ec490542bfc.png?v=1786591475","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200011729-secondhand-for-love-alone","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}