Picnic Races
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A work of Australian fiction by celebrated novelist Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races chronicles the social dynamics and personal dramas that unfold around one of Australia's most beloved rural traditions — the country picnic race meeting. Set against the vivid backdrop of the Australian outback, the novel presents a cast of richly drawn characters whose ambitions, rivalries, and romances are laid bare over the course of a single, charged event. Cusack writes with her trademark sharp wit and keen social observation, using the festive atmosphere of the races as a lens through which she illuminates the class tensions, gender expectations, and community pressures of mid-twentieth-century Australian life. The result is a warm yet incisive portrait of a society in which appearances are carefully maintained and secrets are never far from the surface.
Author: Dymphna Cusack
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Heinemann
Genre: Australian history
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A work of Australian fiction by celebrated novelist Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races chronicles the social dynamics and personal dramas that unfold around one of Australia's most beloved rural traditions — the country picnic race meeting. Set against the vivid backdrop of the Australian outback, the novel presents a cast of richly drawn characters whose ambitions, rivalries, and romances are laid bare over the course of a single, charged event. Cusack writes with her trademark sharp wit and keen social observation, using the festive atmosphere of the races as a lens through which she illuminates the class tensions, gender expectations, and community pressures of mid-twentieth-century Australian life. The result is a warm yet incisive portrait of a society in which appearances are carefully maintained and secrets are never far from the surface.