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Poor Fellow My Country (In Slipcase)

by Herbert, Xavier

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Sydney London: Collins Fontana Book, 1977. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1463 pages, includes glossary of aboriginal names and list of characters. Overseas customers please note the book weighs overs a kilo and will attract additional postage.The spine of the slipcase has a 7cm closed tear running vertically to the tail; it is also bumped and chipped at the edges and at the back, the head has been reinforced with clear tape. The body of the book has a small ownership stamp on the front end paper and a bookplate on the front paste down; up to page 48 the blank outer edge there's a small crease running vertically along the blank outer edge, a printer's fault, else the book appears unread. "In Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert returns to the region made his own in Capricornia: Northern Australia. Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; ...... Winner of the Miles Franklin award on first publication in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country is masterful storytelling, an epic in the truest sense.

Synopsis

Poor Fellow My Country is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Xavier Herbert. It is the longest Australian book ever written. Primarily, it is the story of Jeremy Delacy and his illegitimate grandson Prindy in the years leading up to World War II. It covers matter on Aboriginal affairs, Australian patriotism and nationalism; subjects also dealt with in Herbert's novel Capricornia.

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Bookseller
Good Reading Second Hand Books AU (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #
021525
Title
Poor Fellow My Country (In Slipcase)
Author
Herbert, Xavier
Format/Binding
Soft cover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
Publisher
Collins Fontana Book
Place of Publication
Sydney London
Date Published
1977
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords
ISBN 000006144705 Australian Literature

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Good Reading operates from a house, which is all bookshop, and holds approximately 35,000 titles. It is open by appointment only.Benalla is a country town two and a half hours north of Melbourne on both the Hume and the Midland Highway.

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