Black Lightning
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Set against the vivid backdrop of mid-twentieth century Australia, Dymphna Cusack's Black Lightning is a socially charged novel that chronicles the turbulent life of a passionate and gifted artist struggling against the rigid conventions of his time. With unflinching honesty, Cusack uncovers the personal and societal forces that both fuel and destroy creative genius, weaving a narrative that is at once intimate and sweeping in its critique of conformity, class, and ambition. The novel presents its characters with psychological depth and moral complexity, refusing easy resolutions as it traces the cost of artistic integrity in a world that prizes security over vision. Cusack's prose carries the same fierce, committed energy that defined her broader body of work as one of Australia's most socially conscious writers, making Black Lightning a compelling and enduring portrait of the artist as a figure both celebrated and condemned by the society around him.
Author: Dymphna Cusack
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Heinemann: London
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Set against the vivid backdrop of mid-twentieth century Australia, Dymphna Cusack's Black Lightning is a socially charged novel that chronicles the turbulent life of a passionate and gifted artist struggling against the rigid conventions of his time. With unflinching honesty, Cusack uncovers the personal and societal forces that both fuel and destroy creative genius, weaving a narrative that is at once intimate and sweeping in its critique of conformity, class, and ambition. The novel presents its characters with psychological depth and moral complexity, refusing easy resolutions as it traces the cost of artistic integrity in a world that prizes security over vision. Cusack's prose carries the same fierce, committed energy that defined her broader body of work as one of Australia's most socially conscious writers, making Black Lightning a compelling and enduring portrait of the artist as a figure both celebrated and condemned by the society around him.