{"product_id":"2026600000511-secondhand-the-pea-pickers","title":"The Pea-Pickers","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 3rd ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: FEP clipped. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48763138015451,"sku":"2026600000511-SECONDHAND","price":30.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2185240c-ea06-4c73-98e0-ae68341fe7bc.png?v=1778499168","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000511-secondhand-the-pea-pickers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}