{"product_id":"2026200018426-secondhand-short-stories","title":"Short Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: First ed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the red dust of the Australian bush to the cramped corridors of a city hospital, Alan Marshall's Short Stories presents a vivid and deeply humane portrait of ordinary Australian life. This celebrated anthology gathers some of Marshall's finest short fiction, chronicling the lives of battlers, dreamers, and survivors — characters drawn with unflinching honesty and quiet compassion. Marshall, himself no stranger to adversity, distills his personal experience of poverty, disability, and resilience into prose of remarkable clarity and warmth, giving voice to those on the margins of mid-twentieth-century Australian society.\n\nMarshall's style is deceptively simple — spare, direct, and richly observed — yet beneath the surface of each story runs a powerful current of social conscience and emotional truth. As one of Australia's most beloved storytellers, he holds a place of enduring significance in the nation's literary canon, his work sitting comfortably alongside the great tradition of Australian realist writing. Whether encountering a larrikin character on a country road or a quiet moment of grace in an unlikely place, readers will find themselves drawn irresistibly into Marshall's world — and reluctant to leave it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50736174399707,"sku":"2026200018426-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/96e23f32-7d0e-4579-808e-4b024d291d93.png?v=1792122550","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200018426-secondhand-short-stories","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}