Book Details
Title: Clean Straw for Nothing
Author: George Johnston
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Collins
Year: 1969
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 318
Dimensions: L21.5cm xW14cm x D2.5cm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Dust jacket is in an acceptable condition, and it is globally intact. It has clear signs of wear - rubbing and tears around the edges. Some of the larger tears have been repaired with archival tape to prevent further damage. There is some creasing, marking and scuffing. There appears to be some water staining to the bottom of the rear of the Dust Jacket. The inside of the dust jacket stained where there has been some colour transfer from the hardcover. Despite the acceptable grading of the dust jacket, the hardcover beneath has been well preserved. The brown boards are intact with occasional bumps/marks and some wear to edges, ends of spine (including crushing) and corners. The print and embossing on the spine is intact.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact. On the title page there is a name inscribed in ink at the top. Pages have some staining/spots, otherwise in good shape.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"With 'My Brother Jack' George Johnston established himself as one of the foremost living Australian novelists. In addition to world-wide success and unstinted critical acclaim, his book won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1964, Australia's chief literary prize. Its successor will more than justify the author's reputation.
David Meredith, Jack's younger brother, is again the narrator, but this time his own story provides the theme. The end of the Second World War was a time of new beginnings: so Davy abandons his successful career as a journalist to write books; he abandons his first wife to marry the enchanting, mysterious Cressida; he abandons Australia for what so many of his countrymen think of as the wider horizons of Europe. But the business of making a living and the circumstances in which he has to make it prove too much for his creative impulse. Escape from the world to a minute Greek island where life is primitive and living cheap offers no satisfactory answer to the problems of being an Australian - typified not only by Davy and Cressida but by a rich variety of characters - are solved by becoming an expatriate. The pull between two ways of life, two continents, ends in the near-destruction of Davy's marriage, career and health. Yet, by a triumphant irony, it is these apparent failures which reward him with ultimate success: it is his experiences of the turmoil and torment of the present and the tranquillity and beauty left from the past that furnish him with the material for this sensitive and absorbing novel."
Book Details
Title: Clean Straw for Nothing
Author: George Johnston
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Collins
Year: 1969
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 318
Dimensions: L21.5cm xW14cm x D2.5cm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: N/A
Battle Scars:
Outside:
Dust jacket is in an acceptable condition, and it is globally intact. It has clear signs of wear - rubbing and tears around the edges. Some of the larger tears have been repaired with archival tape to prevent further damage. There is some creasing, marking and scuffing. There appears to be some water staining to the bottom of the rear of the Dust Jacket. The inside of the dust jacket stained where there has been some colour transfer from the hardcover. Despite the acceptable grading of the dust jacket, the hardcover beneath has been well preserved. The brown boards are intact with occasional bumps/marks and some wear to edges, ends of spine (including crushing) and corners. The print and embossing on the spine is intact.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact. On the title page there is a name inscribed in ink at the top. Pages have some staining/spots, otherwise in good shape.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"With 'My Brother Jack' George Johnston established himself as one of the foremost living Australian novelists. In addition to world-wide success and unstinted critical acclaim, his book won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1964, Australia's chief literary prize. Its successor will more than justify the author's reputation.
David Meredith, Jack's younger brother, is again the narrator, but this time his own story provides the theme. The end of the Second World War was a time of new beginnings: so Davy abandons his successful career as a journalist to write books; he abandons his first wife to marry the enchanting, mysterious Cressida; he abandons Australia for what so many of his countrymen think of as the wider horizons of Europe. But the business of making a living and the circumstances in which he has to make it prove too much for his creative impulse. Escape from the world to a minute Greek island where life is primitive and living cheap offers no satisfactory answer to the problems of being an Australian - typified not only by Davy and Cressida but by a rich variety of characters - are solved by becoming an expatriate. The pull between two ways of life, two continents, ends in the near-destruction of Davy's marriage, career and health. Yet, by a triumphant irony, it is these apparent failures which reward him with ultimate success: it is his experiences of the turmoil and torment of the present and the tranquillity and beauty left from the past that furnish him with the material for this sensitive and absorbing novel."
