Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins - Brossura

Furphy, Joseph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1922147214 ISBN 13: 9781922147219

Casa editrice: Text Pub Co, 2013

Riassunto

The farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. Joseph Furphy's great work of Australian literature combines a genius for storytelling with a wry wit and a deep love for the sun-baked land and the people who worked it. Introduced by David Malouf.

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L'autore:

Joseph Furphy was born in Victoria in 1843. Half bushman and half bookworm’, Furphy worked as a goldminer, labourer and farmer before coming to the profession that would inspire SUCH IS LIFE, bullock driving. SUCH IS LIFE was originally published in 1903 and was soon regarded as one of Australia’s great novels. Furphy’s three other books were published after his death in 1912.

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Such Is Life details the splendidly farcical and tragic reminiscences of philosopher and rogue Tom Collins, and is widely recognised as a defining work of Australian literature, taking its title from what were supposedly the outlaw Ned Kelly's dying words. As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and Northern Victoria, he gets wildly entangled in the fates of others - like Rory O'Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal), Mrs Beaudesart and Hungry Buckley of Baroona - recreating the humour, pathos and irony he encountered in his life in the bush.

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• Editore: Text Pub Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1922147214
• ISBN 13: 9781922147219
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 431