The Most Beautiful World: Fictions And Sermons (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: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A rich and genre-defying work from one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, The Most Beautiful World: Fictions and Sermons presents a collection of short prose pieces that blur the boundaries between parable, fiction, and moral meditation. Rodney Hall crafts each piece with lyrical precision, weaving together imaginative narratives and sermon-like reflections that challenge the reader's assumptions about faith, humanity, and the nature of beauty itself. The tone is at once contemplative and provocative, drawing on the cadences of sacred oratory while grounding its insights in vivid, earthly storytelling. Hall illustrates the tensions between the spiritual and the profane, the communal and the solitary, with a quiet intensity that rewards careful, unhurried reading. This is a work of serious literary ambition, confirming Hall's reputation as a writer unafraid to push the boundaries of conventional form.
Author: Rodney Hall
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, University of Queensland Press
Genre: Fiction
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A rich and genre-defying work from one of Australia's most celebrated literary voices, The Most Beautiful World: Fictions and Sermons presents a collection of short prose pieces that blur the boundaries between parable, fiction, and moral meditation. Rodney Hall crafts each piece with lyrical precision, weaving together imaginative narratives and sermon-like reflections that challenge the reader's assumptions about faith, humanity, and the nature of beauty itself. The tone is at once contemplative and provocative, drawing on the cadences of sacred oratory while grounding its insights in vivid, earthly storytelling. Hall illustrates the tensions between the spiritual and the profane, the communal and the solitary, with a quiet intensity that rewards careful, unhurried reading. This is a work of serious literary ambition, confirming Hall's reputation as a writer unafraid to push the boundaries of conventional form.