Return To Coolami
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: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A road trip becomes a journey into the heart of fractured relationships in Eleanor Dark's Return to Coolami, a compact yet devastating novel set against the sweeping Australian landscape of the 1930s. Over the course of a single weekend drive, four passengers — bound by marriage, memory, and unspoken grievance — are forced into an intimacy that strips away every comfortable pretence, as buried resentments and long-suppressed truths rise to the surface with quiet, inexorable force. Dark, one of Australia's most celebrated modernist writers, constructs this psychological portrait with a precision and economy that recalls the finest tradition of interior fiction. Told through shifting perspectives and a masterful manipulation of time, Return to Coolami illustrates how the mundane act of travel can become a crucible for self-revelation, exposing the fault lines beneath the surface of ordinary lives. For readers who believe they know what awaits at journey's end, Dark has one final, unsettling surprise in store.
Author: Eleanor Dark
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A road trip becomes a journey into the heart of fractured relationships in Eleanor Dark's Return to Coolami, a compact yet devastating novel set against the sweeping Australian landscape of the 1930s. Over the course of a single weekend drive, four passengers — bound by marriage, memory, and unspoken grievance — are forced into an intimacy that strips away every comfortable pretence, as buried resentments and long-suppressed truths rise to the surface with quiet, inexorable force. Dark, one of Australia's most celebrated modernist writers, constructs this psychological portrait with a precision and economy that recalls the finest tradition of interior fiction. Told through shifting perspectives and a masterful manipulation of time, Return to Coolami illustrates how the mundane act of travel can become a crucible for self-revelation, exposing the fault lines beneath the surface of ordinary lives. For readers who believe they know what awaits at journey's end, Dark has one final, unsettling surprise in store.