Tiburon
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the dusty, sun-scorched landscape of a small Australian country town during the Great Depression, Tiburon chronicles the lives of its struggling inhabitants with unflinching honesty and deep social compassion. Kylie Tennant immerses the reader in a world of poverty, resilience, and community, presenting a vivid portrait of ordinary people caught in the grinding machinery of economic collapse — their small triumphs and quiet tragedies rendered with remarkable authenticity, drawn from Tennant's own experience of living among the unemployed. A landmark of Australian social realism, Tiburon stands as a testament to Tennant's singular ability to illuminate the humanity within the marginalised and forgotten. Her prose is both earthy and lyrical, suffused with dark humour and a fierce empathy that refuses sentimentality. Celebrated alongside the works of Miles Franklin and Henry Lawson as essential reading in the Australian literary canon, this novel argues powerfully that dignity and community endure even in the harshest of circumstances — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of Australia's soul is still shaped by the shadow of those desperate years.
Author: Kylie Tennant
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Set against the dusty, sun-scorched landscape of a small Australian country town during the Great Depression, Tiburon chronicles the lives of its struggling inhabitants with unflinching honesty and deep social compassion. Kylie Tennant immerses the reader in a world of poverty, resilience, and community, presenting a vivid portrait of ordinary people caught in the grinding machinery of economic collapse — their small triumphs and quiet tragedies rendered with remarkable authenticity, drawn from Tennant's own experience of living among the unemployed. A landmark of Australian social realism, Tiburon stands as a testament to Tennant's singular ability to illuminate the humanity within the marginalised and forgotten. Her prose is both earthy and lyrical, suffused with dark humour and a fierce empathy that refuses sentimentality. Celebrated alongside the works of Miles Franklin and Henry Lawson as essential reading in the Australian literary canon, this novel argues powerfully that dignity and community endure even in the harshest of circumstances — leaving the reader to wonder just how much of Australia's soul is still shaped by the shadow of those desperate years.