The Wort Papers
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Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some minor creasing and edge wear to dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed — tanning to page edges consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Intact, firm binding.
A landmark of Australian experimental fiction, The Wort Papers is the ambitious second novel from Peter Mathers, the celebrated author of Trap. The narrative chronicles the sprawling, chaotic life of Jack Wort, a larger-than-life Australian anti-hero whose personal history becomes a darkly comic lens through which the entire sweep of Australian colonial and modern experience is refracted. Mathers writes with anarchic energy and savage wit, dismantling conventional narrative structure to produce a work that is simultaneously a picaresque adventure, a political satire, and a meditation on national identity. Bold, irreverent, and unapologetically challenging, it stands as one of the most distinctive voices to emerge from Australian literature in the twentieth century.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded, some minor creasing and edge wear to dust jacket. Page Condition: Yellowed — tanning to page edges consistent with age. Markings: No visible markings. Binding condition: Intact, firm binding.
A landmark of Australian experimental fiction, The Wort Papers is the ambitious second novel from Peter Mathers, the celebrated author of Trap. The narrative chronicles the sprawling, chaotic life of Jack Wort, a larger-than-life Australian anti-hero whose personal history becomes a darkly comic lens through which the entire sweep of Australian colonial and modern experience is refracted. Mathers writes with anarchic energy and savage wit, dismantling conventional narrative structure to produce a work that is simultaneously a picaresque adventure, a political satire, and a meditation on national identity. Bold, irreverent, and unapologetically challenging, it stands as one of the most distinctive voices to emerge from Australian literature in the twentieth century.
