{"product_id":"2026770001638-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: Tanning and foxing                  \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, using Wort's fractured voice to skewer colonial history, class pretension, and national identity with savage wit and irreverence. The novel's anarchic prose style — dense, digressive, and deliberately disorienting — demands an engaged reader willing to surrender to its unpredictable rhythms. Celebrated by critics as one of the most daring works in the Australian literary canon, it stands alongside Mathers' debut Trap as a bold challenge to conventional storytelling, illustrating the full, subversive range of his literary vision.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48839376109787,"sku":"2026770001638-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f3bbd9f4-d422-44bf-a955-fe42a33ab3b3.png?v=1780560992","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026770001638-secondhand-the-wort-papers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}