All The Green Year (SIGNED)
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 ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
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 Victorian town during the 1930s. With gentle humour and an affectionate eye for detail, D. E. Charlwood illustrates the universal rhythms of adolescence — friendship, first love, rivalry, and the bittersweet passage from boyhood toward maturity. The novel captures the texture of small-town Australian life with remarkable authenticity, presenting a world of beach summers, local characters, and the particular freedoms and frustrations of youth. Regarded as a classic of Australian literature, it carries a tone that is both wistful and quietly comic, resonating with readers who cherish stories of innocence and the irretrievable charm of childhood summers.
Author: D. E. Charlwood
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Modern fiction
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Boards - good. Binding - tight.
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 Victorian town during the 1930s. With gentle humour and an affectionate eye for detail, D. E. Charlwood illustrates the universal rhythms of adolescence — friendship, first love, rivalry, and the bittersweet passage from boyhood toward maturity. The novel captures the texture of small-town Australian life with remarkable authenticity, presenting a world of beach summers, local characters, and the particular freedoms and frustrations of youth. Regarded as a classic of Australian literature, it carries a tone that is both wistful and quietly comic, resonating with readers who cherish stories of innocence and the irretrievable charm of childhood summers.