{"product_id":"2026770000911-secondhand-when-blackbirds-sing","title":"When Blackbirds Sing","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: No markings\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this profoundly moving and devastatingly intimate wartime drama, acclaimed Anglo-Australian novelist Martin Boyd delivers the stunning conclusion to his celebrated Langton Tetralogy. The narrative centers on Dominic Langton, who leaves behind his idyllic, remote Australian pastoral farm and his young family at the outbreak of World War I to enlist in the British army. Arriving in England, Dominic is initially seduced by the aristocratic grandeur, privilege, and ancestral roots of his British relatives; however, his subsequent deployment to the horrific mud and carnage of the Western Front utterly shatters his romanticized ideals, forcing an agonising spiritual awakening.\n\nWhen Blackbirds Sing stands as a unique monument in twentieth-century Australian literature, praised by critics for discarding the wider family saga format of its predecessors to focus entirely on a singular, deeply psychological anti-war testament. Boyd’s prose is exceptionally elegant, balancing a sharp, Edwardian social comedy with the unsparing, visceral trauma of combat and moral disillusionment. This classic Lansdowne Press edition is an indispensable acquisition for collectors of Australian modern classics and those seeking a masterpiece that explores the friction of divided colonial identities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48826077053147,"sku":"2026770000911-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9c5f2efc-3d1e-406e-9e19-d2ebe05f66dc.png?v=1780312149","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026770000911-secondhand-when-blackbirds-sing","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}