The Pea-Pickers
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: 3rd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: FEP clipped.
A landmark of Australian literature, The Pea Pickers is a semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles the wandering lives of two young women — Steve and Blue — who disguise themselves as men to find work as itinerant labourers in the rural Victoria of the 1930s. Eve Langley's debut work presents a vivid, lyrical portrait of the Australian bush, capturing the hardship, freedom, and longing that define life on the margins of society. Written with an exuberant, poetic intensity, the narrative illustrates the tension between the protagonist's fierce desire for independence and her yearning for love and belonging. Langley's prose is at once wildly romantic and sharply observant, drawing on her own experiences to render the landscape and its people with startling authenticity. First published in 1942, The Pea Pickers stands as a bold, unconventional work that defies easy categorisation, occupying a unique space between adventure, romance, and modernist self-invention.
Author: Eve Langley
Format: Hardback
Published: 1966, Angus and Robertson
Edition: 3rd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: FEP clipped.
A landmark of Australian literature, The Pea Pickers is a semi-autobiographical novel that chronicles the wandering lives of two young women — Steve and Blue — who disguise themselves as men to find work as itinerant labourers in the rural Victoria of the 1930s. Eve Langley's debut work presents a vivid, lyrical portrait of the Australian bush, capturing the hardship, freedom, and longing that define life on the margins of society. Written with an exuberant, poetic intensity, the narrative illustrates the tension between the protagonist's fierce desire for independence and her yearning for love and belonging. Langley's prose is at once wildly romantic and sharply observant, drawing on her own experiences to render the landscape and its people with startling authenticity. First published in 1942, The Pea Pickers stands as a bold, unconventional work that defies easy categorisation, occupying a unique space between adventure, romance, and modernist self-invention.