A Difficult Young Man
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A Difficult Young Man is the second installment in Martin Boyd's celebrated Langton tetralogy, a sequence of semi-autobiographical novels that chronicle the fortunes of a distinguished Anglo-Australian family across generations. At its centre is Dominic Langton, a passionate, volatile, and deeply contradictory young man whose turbulent nature sets him at odds with the genteel expectations of his class and era, as seen through the affectionate yet perceptive eyes of his cousin Guy. Boyd weaves together the drawing rooms of Melbourne and the English countryside, constructing a world of privilege, longing, and quiet social conflict in the early twentieth century. Boyd's prose is elegant and ironic, suffused with a wistful tenderness that recalls the great tradition of the Anglo-Australian literary imagination. As a novelist acutely attuned to questions of identity, belonging, and the collision between Old World values and New World realities, he presents Dominic not merely as a troubled individual but as a symbol of an entire civilisation at a crossroads. Readers who surrendered themselves to the world of The Cardboard Crown will find this continuation both richer and more haunting — a portrait of a man who contains within him all the beauty and destruction of a passing age.
Author: Martin Boyd
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A Difficult Young Man is the second installment in Martin Boyd's celebrated Langton tetralogy, a sequence of semi-autobiographical novels that chronicle the fortunes of a distinguished Anglo-Australian family across generations. At its centre is Dominic Langton, a passionate, volatile, and deeply contradictory young man whose turbulent nature sets him at odds with the genteel expectations of his class and era, as seen through the affectionate yet perceptive eyes of his cousin Guy. Boyd weaves together the drawing rooms of Melbourne and the English countryside, constructing a world of privilege, longing, and quiet social conflict in the early twentieth century. Boyd's prose is elegant and ironic, suffused with a wistful tenderness that recalls the great tradition of the Anglo-Australian literary imagination. As a novelist acutely attuned to questions of identity, belonging, and the collision between Old World values and New World realities, he presents Dominic not merely as a troubled individual but as a symbol of an entire civilisation at a crossroads. Readers who surrendered themselves to the world of The Cardboard Crown will find this continuation both richer and more haunting — a portrait of a man who contains within him all the beauty and destruction of a passing age.