Homebush Boy (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: 1at aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A vivid work of autobiographical fiction, Homebush Boy chronicles a pivotal year in the life of a seventeen-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney in the late 1940s. Tom Keneally draws on his own adolescence to present a richly textured portrait of a young man caught between the austere demands of his faith, the intoxicating pull of literature, and the bewildering awakening of desire. Set against the backdrop of postwar Australia, the narrative illustrates the tensions of a working-class community shaped by religious devotion, sporting ambition, and the quiet anxieties of a society still finding its footing. Written with warmth, wit, and an unflinching honesty, the novel captures the universal ache of youth — the longing for identity, belonging, and a life beyond the familiar streets of Homebush.
Author: Tom Keneally
Format: Hardback
Published: 1995, William Heinemann Australia
Genre: Biography
Edition: 1at aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
A vivid work of autobiographical fiction, Homebush Boy chronicles a pivotal year in the life of a seventeen-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the western suburbs of Sydney in the late 1940s. Tom Keneally draws on his own adolescence to present a richly textured portrait of a young man caught between the austere demands of his faith, the intoxicating pull of literature, and the bewildering awakening of desire. Set against the backdrop of postwar Australia, the narrative illustrates the tensions of a working-class community shaped by religious devotion, sporting ambition, and the quiet anxieties of a society still finding its footing. Written with warmth, wit, and an unflinching honesty, the novel captures the universal ache of youth — the longing for identity, belonging, and a life beyond the familiar streets of Homebush.