{"product_id":"2026600000578-secondhand-the-wort-papers","title":"The Wort Papers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark of Australian experimental fiction, The Wort Papers chronicles the chaotic misadventures of Jack Wort, a wildly eccentric and morally unmoored protagonist whose rambling, stream-of-consciousness narrative tears through the social and cultural fabric of mid-twentieth-century Australia. Peter Mathers constructs a darkly comic and satirical world in which language itself becomes a weapon, bending and fracturing to reflect Wort's anarchic inner life and his contempt for bourgeois convention. The novel presents a blistering critique of Australian identity, nationalism, and the myths of the settler society, delivered with savage wit and an almost gleeful disregard for narrative decorum. Mathers illustrates how the personal and the political are inextricably entangled, using Wort's picaresque journey as a lens through which the hypocrisies of an entire nation are laid bare. Challenging, irreverent, and bracingly original, this work stands as one of the most audacious novels in the Australian literary canon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792279548123,"sku":"2026600000578-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a210d45f-3774-4991-9e12-ab65fdebd8c8.png?v=1779274555","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000578-secondhand-the-wort-papers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}