The Road To Gundagai
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: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to grow up between two worlds — to be shaped equally by the fog of London and the blazing sun of Australia? The Road to Gundagai is Graham McInnes's warmly rendered memoir of a childhood lived across continents, chronicling his early years as the son of a prominent English mother and his eventual transplantation to Australia, a land both alien and intoxicating in its raw, sprawling vitality. With sharp wit and an observant eye, McInnes maps the emotional and geographical distances of a boyhood caught between the rigid social codes of 1920s England and the sun-drenched, irreverent freedom of Melbourne's suburban streets. McInnes writes with the precision of a memoirist who understands that the truest stories are found in the smallest details — a schoolyard slight, a Sunday roast, the smell of eucalyptus on a summer afternoon. The Road to Gundagai stands as a quietly significant work in Australian literary autobiography, illuminating themes of identity, belonging, and cultural dislocation with a gentle but penetrating intelligence. The son of the celebrated novelist Angela Thirkell, McInnes inherited her gift for social observation, deploying it here to paint a portrait of a young man perpetually navigating the hyphen between British and Australian identity — and leaving the reader to wonder which road, in the end, he truly chose.
Author: Graham Mcinnes
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to grow up between two worlds — to be shaped equally by the fog of London and the blazing sun of Australia? The Road to Gundagai is Graham McInnes's warmly rendered memoir of a childhood lived across continents, chronicling his early years as the son of a prominent English mother and his eventual transplantation to Australia, a land both alien and intoxicating in its raw, sprawling vitality. With sharp wit and an observant eye, McInnes maps the emotional and geographical distances of a boyhood caught between the rigid social codes of 1920s England and the sun-drenched, irreverent freedom of Melbourne's suburban streets. McInnes writes with the precision of a memoirist who understands that the truest stories are found in the smallest details — a schoolyard slight, a Sunday roast, the smell of eucalyptus on a summer afternoon. The Road to Gundagai stands as a quietly significant work in Australian literary autobiography, illuminating themes of identity, belonging, and cultural dislocation with a gentle but penetrating intelligence. The son of the celebrated novelist Angela Thirkell, McInnes inherited her gift for social observation, deploying it here to paint a portrait of a young man perpetually navigating the hyphen between British and Australian identity — and leaving the reader to wonder which road, in the end, he truly chose.