Johnno

David Malouf

Brisbane

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University of Queensland Press

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1989

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Collector’s Edition.

22.5cm x 14.5cm. 170 pages. White cloth, black lettering, illustrated jacket.

‘Johnno’ is rightly considered an Australian classic. It is one of David Malouf’s finest novels, and a savagely honest appraisal of the malaise of white suburban masculinity in 1970s Australia. Dealing with cultural cringe, tall poppy syndrome and the stagnating influences of capitalism and postmodernism, it paints a picture of two very different but equally lost young men, whose intelligence and charisma is no shield against the societies in which they live and travel. To a lover of Malouf, a signed first edition of this landmark of Australian literature would be invaluable.

Foxing to cloth, minor elsewhere. Tape repair to jacket verso. Good Condition.