Captivity Captive (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: Good
Markings: Signed
A landmark work of Australian literary fiction, Captivity Captive chronicles the unsolved 1898 murders of three adult siblings in rural New South Wales, reconstructing the dark and suffocating world of an isolated farming family through the haunted voice of the sole surviving brother. Rodney Hall constructs a narrative of extraordinary psychological intensity, presenting the crime not as a mystery to be solved but as a wound in the national consciousness — a story that colonial Australia buried and forgot. The prose is dense, lyrical, and deliberately unsettling, drawing the reader into a world of repressed violence, shame, and the terrible silence of the land itself. Hall argues, through this deeply atmospheric novel, that the myths a society chooses to suppress reveal more about its character than those it celebrates. Captivity Captive stands as one of the most powerful and challenging works in the Australian literary canon, rewarding patient readers with a profound meditation on guilt, memory, and the cost of silence.
Author: Rodney Hall
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, McPhee Gribble Publishers
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
A landmark work of Australian literary fiction, Captivity Captive chronicles the unsolved 1898 murders of three adult siblings in rural New South Wales, reconstructing the dark and suffocating world of an isolated farming family through the haunted voice of the sole surviving brother. Rodney Hall constructs a narrative of extraordinary psychological intensity, presenting the crime not as a mystery to be solved but as a wound in the national consciousness — a story that colonial Australia buried and forgot. The prose is dense, lyrical, and deliberately unsettling, drawing the reader into a world of repressed violence, shame, and the terrible silence of the land itself. Hall argues, through this deeply atmospheric novel, that the myths a society chooses to suppress reveal more about its character than those it celebrates. Captivity Captive stands as one of the most powerful and challenging works in the Australian literary canon, rewarding patient readers with a profound meditation on guilt, memory, and the cost of silence.