All The Green Year
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good , price clipped
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A warmly nostalgic work of Australian coming-of-age fiction, All the Green Year chronicles the misadventures and youthful escapades of fourteen-year-old Charlie Dowd growing up in a small coastal town in Victoria during the 1930s. With gentle humour and an affectionate eye for detail, Charlwood captures the rhythms of adolescent life — the friendships, rivalries, first stirrings of romance, and the bittersweet tension between boyhood freedom and the approaching responsibilities of adulthood. The novel presents a vivid portrait of a vanished Australia, evoking sun-drenched summers, local eccentrics, and the particular innocence of a pre-war era with remarkable authenticity. Celebrated as a classic of Australian literature, it endures as a deeply human story that resonates with readers of all ages who recognise the universal ache of a youth slipping irretrievably away.
Author: D. E. Charlwood
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Angus and Robertson
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good , price clipped
Markings: No markings
A warmly nostalgic work of Australian coming-of-age fiction, All the Green Year chronicles the misadventures and youthful escapades of fourteen-year-old Charlie Dowd growing up in a small coastal town in Victoria during the 1930s. With gentle humour and an affectionate eye for detail, Charlwood captures the rhythms of adolescent life — the friendships, rivalries, first stirrings of romance, and the bittersweet tension between boyhood freedom and the approaching responsibilities of adulthood. The novel presents a vivid portrait of a vanished Australia, evoking sun-drenched summers, local eccentrics, and the particular innocence of a pre-war era with remarkable authenticity. Celebrated as a classic of Australian literature, it endures as a deeply human story that resonates with readers of all ages who recognise the universal ache of a youth slipping irretrievably away.