Twenty-Three
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
"Twenty-Three" is an Australian social realist short fiction collection, Morrison's third and finest, comprising twenty-three stories drawn from the 1950s and early 1960s that chronicle the working lives of wharfies, rouseabouts, gardeners, and battlers across Melbourne and the wider Australian landscape, capturing with unsentimental precision the textures of exploitation, union solidarity, material hardship, and the quiet dignity of labour, with standout pieces including "Bo Abbott," a portrait of a militant waterside worker, and "The Ticket," which traces a young English immigrant's discovery of comradeship through the Australian Workers' Union, a collection that won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1963 and cemented Morrison's reputation as the preeminent voice of Australian working-class fiction.
Author: John Morrison
Format: Hardback
Published: 1962, Australasian Book Society
Genre: Fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
"Twenty-Three" is an Australian social realist short fiction collection, Morrison's third and finest, comprising twenty-three stories drawn from the 1950s and early 1960s that chronicle the working lives of wharfies, rouseabouts, gardeners, and battlers across Melbourne and the wider Australian landscape, capturing with unsentimental precision the textures of exploitation, union solidarity, material hardship, and the quiet dignity of labour, with standout pieces including "Bo Abbott," a portrait of a militant waterside worker, and "The Ticket," which traces a young English immigrant's discovery of comradeship through the Australian Workers' Union, a collection that won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1963 and cemented Morrison's reputation as the preeminent voice of Australian working-class fiction.