The Second Bridegroom (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 ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Set against the raw, unforgiving landscape of early colonial Australia, The Second Bridegroom is a haunting and lyrical work of literary historical fiction. The novel chronicles the journey of a convict who escapes into the wilderness and is taken in by an Aboriginal community, forcing a profound reckoning with identity, belonging, and the violent collision of two worlds. Rodney Hall constructs the narrative with an intense, dreamlike prose style that blurs the boundaries between civilization and nature, self and other. The story uncovers the brutal contradictions at the heart of the colonial project, presenting a vision of Australia's founding that is both deeply unsettling and achingly beautiful. Celebrated as one of Hall's finest works, it stands as a powerful meditation on what it means to be truly lost — and irrevocably transformed.
Author: Rodney Hall
Format: Hardback
Published: 1991, McPhee Gribble
Genre: Historical fiction
Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Set against the raw, unforgiving landscape of early colonial Australia, The Second Bridegroom is a haunting and lyrical work of literary historical fiction. The novel chronicles the journey of a convict who escapes into the wilderness and is taken in by an Aboriginal community, forcing a profound reckoning with identity, belonging, and the violent collision of two worlds. Rodney Hall constructs the narrative with an intense, dreamlike prose style that blurs the boundaries between civilization and nature, self and other. The story uncovers the brutal contradictions at the heart of the colonial project, presenting a vision of Australia's founding that is both deeply unsettling and achingly beautiful. Celebrated as one of Hall's finest works, it stands as a powerful meditation on what it means to be truly lost — and irrevocably transformed.