Watching The Climbers On The Mountain (SIGNED)
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.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A powerful work of Australian literary fiction, Watching the Climbers on the Mountain chronicles the collision of two worlds on a remote Queensland cattle station, where the aging landholder Ward Rankin and his family find their way of life irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of an idealistic young outsider. Alex Miller constructs a richly layered narrative that examines themes of belonging, inheritance, and the tension between tradition and change against the vast, unforgiving Australian landscape. The novel unfolds with quiet intensity, presenting its characters with unflinching psychological depth as loyalties fracture and long-held certainties begin to erode. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, it stands as a landmark of Australian literature — a deeply humane and contemplative story that illustrates how the land itself becomes a silent arbiter of human ambition and loss.
Author: Alex Miller
Format: Paperback
Published: 1988, Pan Books Sydney and London
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
A powerful work of Australian literary fiction, Watching the Climbers on the Mountain chronicles the collision of two worlds on a remote Queensland cattle station, where the aging landholder Ward Rankin and his family find their way of life irrevocably disrupted by the arrival of an idealistic young outsider. Alex Miller constructs a richly layered narrative that examines themes of belonging, inheritance, and the tension between tradition and change against the vast, unforgiving Australian landscape. The novel unfolds with quiet intensity, presenting its characters with unflinching psychological depth as loyalties fracture and long-held certainties begin to erode. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award, it stands as a landmark of Australian literature — a deeply humane and contemplative story that illustrates how the land itself becomes a silent arbiter of human ambition and loss.