Grand Days
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
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Set against the idealistic and turbulent backdrop of interwar Geneva, Grand Days is a sweeping work of literary historical fiction that chronicles the early career of Edith Campbell Berry, a young Australian woman who arrives in the 1920s to work for the newly formed League of Nations. Frank Moorhouse presents Edith's story with a rich blend of wit, sensuality, and intellectual depth, capturing her passionate belief in internationalism and her personal awakening in a cosmopolitan world of diplomats, idealists, and lovers. The novel illustrates the grand ambitions of a generation that dared to imagine a world governed by reason and cooperation, while simultaneously tracing the intimate contradictions of a woman navigating modernity, desire, and identity. Moorhouse's prose is elegant and assured, grounding sweeping historical forces in the acutely observed details of one woman's life, making Grand Days both a compelling character study and a meditation on the promise — and fragility — of utopian idealism.
Author: Frank Moorhouse
Format: Hardback
Published: 1993, Macmillan Australia
Genre: Historical fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Set against the idealistic and turbulent backdrop of interwar Geneva, Grand Days is a sweeping work of literary historical fiction that chronicles the early career of Edith Campbell Berry, a young Australian woman who arrives in the 1920s to work for the newly formed League of Nations. Frank Moorhouse presents Edith's story with a rich blend of wit, sensuality, and intellectual depth, capturing her passionate belief in internationalism and her personal awakening in a cosmopolitan world of diplomats, idealists, and lovers. The novel illustrates the grand ambitions of a generation that dared to imagine a world governed by reason and cooperation, while simultaneously tracing the intimate contradictions of a woman navigating modernity, desire, and identity. Moorhouse's prose is elegant and assured, grounding sweeping historical forces in the acutely observed details of one woman's life, making Grand Days both a compelling character study and a meditation on the promise — and fragility — of utopian idealism.