Stories: Five Acre Virgin; The Travelling Entertainer (SIGNED)
Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Previous owner's name penned on fep.
A celebrated work of Australian short fiction, Stories: Five Acre Virgin; The Travelling Entertainer presents two of Elizabeth Jolley's early short story collections in a single volume, showcasing the darkly comic and deeply humane vision that would define her literary career. With characteristic wit and an unsettling undercurrent of longing, Jolley chronicles the lives of outsiders, eccentrics, and quietly desperate souls navigating the margins of suburban and rural Australian society. Her prose illuminates the absurdities of everyday life with a sharp, compassionate eye, drawing readers into intimate worlds where loneliness, desire, and dark humor coexist in uneasy balance. These stories confirm Jolley as one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century Australian literature, a writer whose deceptively simple narratives carry profound emotional and psychological weight.
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Edition: repr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Condition remarks: Previous owner's name penned on fep.
A celebrated work of Australian short fiction, Stories: Five Acre Virgin; The Travelling Entertainer presents two of Elizabeth Jolley's early short story collections in a single volume, showcasing the darkly comic and deeply humane vision that would define her literary career. With characteristic wit and an unsettling undercurrent of longing, Jolley chronicles the lives of outsiders, eccentrics, and quietly desperate souls navigating the margins of suburban and rural Australian society. Her prose illuminates the absurdities of everyday life with a sharp, compassionate eye, drawing readers into intimate worlds where loneliness, desire, and dark humor coexist in uneasy balance. These stories confirm Jolley as one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century Australian literature, a writer whose deceptively simple narratives carry profound emotional and psychological weight.
