One Black Summer
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: First British Ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the sweltering heat of an Australian summer, Barbara Jefferis' One Black Summer draws readers into a world where the season itself becomes a crucible for human emotion, tension, and moral reckoning. The novel chronicles the lives of its characters against a backdrop of simmering unease, capturing with unflinching precision the way that extraordinary heat can strip away civility and lay bare the raw, uncomfortable truths beneath the surface of ordinary life. Jefferis, one of Australia's most underappreciated mid-century voices, writes with a spare yet evocative prose style that recalls the best of literary realism — her sentences economical but charged with psychological depth. A passionate advocate for social justice and women's rights, she infuses her fiction with a moral intelligence that elevates the narrative beyond a simple seasonal drama into a meditation on identity, community, and the fragility of human connection. One Black Summer stands as a testament to her considerable gifts as a storyteller, and leaves the reader with an unsettling question: how well do we truly know those around us when the heat turns unbearable?
Author: Barbara Jefferis
Format: Hardback
Published: 1967, Rupert Hart-Davis
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: First British Ed.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the sweltering heat of an Australian summer, Barbara Jefferis' One Black Summer draws readers into a world where the season itself becomes a crucible for human emotion, tension, and moral reckoning. The novel chronicles the lives of its characters against a backdrop of simmering unease, capturing with unflinching precision the way that extraordinary heat can strip away civility and lay bare the raw, uncomfortable truths beneath the surface of ordinary life. Jefferis, one of Australia's most underappreciated mid-century voices, writes with a spare yet evocative prose style that recalls the best of literary realism — her sentences economical but charged with psychological depth. A passionate advocate for social justice and women's rights, she infuses her fiction with a moral intelligence that elevates the narrative beyond a simple seasonal drama into a meditation on identity, community, and the fragility of human connection. One Black Summer stands as a testament to her considerable gifts as a storyteller, and leaves the reader with an unsettling question: how well do we truly know those around us when the heat turns unbearable?