Small Town Rising (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.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Light foxing on book block.
"Small Town Rising" is an Australian social fiction novel set in the fictional Victorian Mallee town of Strong Lake, in which Bill Green dissects the racial and sexual prejudices of small-town life after the mayor's daughter accuses a young Aboriginal man of rape, triggering a chain of events that strips back the town's veneer of respectability and forces its residents, from the powerful to the powerless, to reveal the conservatism, hypocrisy, and buried cruelties that govern their lives, building a sharp, unflinching portrait of mid-twentieth-century Australia that implicates the wider nation in its reckoning.
Author: Bill Green
Format: Hardback
Published: 1981, MacMillan Melbourne
Genre: Fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight. Light foxing on book block.
"Small Town Rising" is an Australian social fiction novel set in the fictional Victorian Mallee town of Strong Lake, in which Bill Green dissects the racial and sexual prejudices of small-town life after the mayor's daughter accuses a young Aboriginal man of rape, triggering a chain of events that strips back the town's veneer of respectability and forces its residents, from the powerful to the powerless, to reveal the conservatism, hypocrisy, and buried cruelties that govern their lives, building a sharp, unflinching portrait of mid-twentieth-century Australia that implicates the wider nation in its reckoning.