Tirra Lirra by the River
by Anderson, Jessica
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0140069453
- ISBN 13
- 9780140069457
- Seller
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King River, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
Penguin Books (Australia), Melbourne, 1989. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 12mo Small. 141 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Previous owner's signature in ink. The book has been read and carries some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. Winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 1978. One of Australia's most celebrated novels: one woman's journey from Australia to London Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest career as a seamstress and lived with two dear friends through the happiest years of her adult life. At home, the neighborhood children she remembers have grown into compassionate adults. They help to nurse her back from pneumonia, and slowly let her in on the dark secrets of the neighborhood in the years that have lapsed. With grace and humor, Nora recounts her desire to escape, the way her marriage went wrong, the vanity that drove her to get a facelift, and one romantic sea voyage that has kept her afloat during her dark years. Her memory is imperfect, but the strength and resilience she shows over the years is nothing short of extraordinary. A book about the sweetness of escape, and the mix of pain and acceptance that comes with returning home. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 0140069453. ISBN/EAN: 9780140069457. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8899. . 9780140069457
Synopsis
Tirra Lirra By the River is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Jessica Anderson.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Great Southern Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8899
- Title
- Tirra Lirra by the River
- Author
- Anderson, Jessica
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140069453
- ISBN 13
- 9780140069457
- Publisher
- Penguin Books (Australia)
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- BZDB137 Women -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction, Fiction in English Australian writers 1945- Texts, Fiction; Australia; ISBN: 0140069453 EAN: 9780140069457 Anderson, Jessica Tirra Lirra by the River
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Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...