Kisses of the Enemy (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 aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Name penned on fep
A baroque and visionary work of speculative fiction, "Kisses of the Enemy" positions a newly republican Australia as the stage for a savage political allegory, tracing the catastrophic rise of Bernard Buchanan, a real-estate agent turned president who trades vast uninhabited tracts of the continent to a sinister anonymous multinational in exchange for power, triggering a descent into a surveillance state where immigrants are shipped to work camps and Buchanan himself bloats into a grotesque embodiment of unchecked authority, all while Hall argues that Australia's open, accommodating society carries within it a fatal vulnerability to foreign opportunism and the seductions of empire in a new guise.
Author: Rodney Hall
Format: Paperback
Published: 1987, Penguin Books
Genre: Fiction
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image. Name penned on fep
A baroque and visionary work of speculative fiction, "Kisses of the Enemy" positions a newly republican Australia as the stage for a savage political allegory, tracing the catastrophic rise of Bernard Buchanan, a real-estate agent turned president who trades vast uninhabited tracts of the continent to a sinister anonymous multinational in exchange for power, triggering a descent into a surveillance state where immigrants are shipped to work camps and Buchanan himself bloats into a grotesque embodiment of unchecked authority, all while Hall argues that Australia's open, accommodating society carries within it a fatal vulnerability to foreign opportunism and the seductions of empire in a new guise.