Vanities
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 aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Remainder mark
"Vanities" is a work of Australian literary fiction that dissects the ambitions, self-deceptions, and moral compromises of contemporary Australian middle-class life, tracking characters whose pursuit of success, status, and desire ultimately hollows them out, as Langford constructs a sharp and unsparing portrait of a society that measures human worth in surfaces and appearances while the deeper hungers of its people go unexamined and unmet.
Author: Gary Langford
Format: Hardback
Published: 1984, Macmillan
Genre: Poetry
Edition: 1st aus ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Remainder mark
"Vanities" is a work of Australian literary fiction that dissects the ambitions, self-deceptions, and moral compromises of contemporary Australian middle-class life, tracking characters whose pursuit of success, status, and desire ultimately hollows them out, as Langford constructs a sharp and unsparing portrait of a society that measures human worth in surfaces and appearances while the deeper hungers of its people go unexamined and unmet.