$13.99
- Paperback
440 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2013
Summary
A classic of the Australian outback, Such Is Life is the splendidly farcical, tragical reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue. As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and Northern Victoria, he gets wildly entangled in the fate of others—like Rory O’Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal), Mrs Beaudesart and Hungry Buckley of Baroona—recreating the humour, the pathos, the irony he knew as part of life in the bush. His is that tough-talking, law-dodgin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922147219 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922147214 |
| Author: | Joseph Furphy, David Malouf |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 440 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2013 |
| Weight: | 315g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Joseph Furphy
Joseph Furphy was born at Port Phillip, 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. In 1904 he settled in Fremantle, Western Australia, to join his children. Such Is Life was originally published in 1903 and was soon regarded as one of Australia’s great novels. Furphy’s three other books—Poems, Rigby’s Romance and The Buln Buln and the Brolga—were all published after his death in 1912.
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