The River And Other Stories
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: Scarce 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text.
"The River and Other Stories" is an Australian short fiction collection by Cecil Mann, a veteran of Gallipoli and Passchendaele who brought to his writing a rare authenticity shaped by bush upbringing on the Tweed River and decades of experience as a journalist and literary editor at the Bulletin, where he championed Australian writers with the same uncompromising precision he applied to his own prose, producing stories distinguished by a quality his contemporaries frequently noted was lacking in the work around him, drawing on the landscapes and characters of rural Australia and the shadow of war to craft tightly controlled, unsentimental fiction that stands as a quiet landmark in the mid-century Australian short story tradition.
Author: Cecil Mann
Format: Hardback
Published: 1945, Dymock's Book Arcade Ltd.
Genre: Anthology
Edition: Scarce 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Clean text.
"The River and Other Stories" is an Australian short fiction collection by Cecil Mann, a veteran of Gallipoli and Passchendaele who brought to his writing a rare authenticity shaped by bush upbringing on the Tweed River and decades of experience as a journalist and literary editor at the Bulletin, where he championed Australian writers with the same uncompromising precision he applied to his own prose, producing stories distinguished by a quality his contemporaries frequently noted was lacking in the work around him, drawing on the landscapes and characters of rural Australia and the shadow of war to craft tightly controlled, unsentimental fiction that stands as a quiet landmark in the mid-century Australian short story tradition.