Jonah, The Australian Experience.

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Axiom
Publisher Place: Stepney, S.A
Publisher Year: 2001
Edition: First Edition

Description: 190 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout. The Characters Are Unforgettable Reminders Of Life In The Bursting Cities Of The Early Twentieth Century.

Publishers Description: Jonah is a bit like a modern musical: episodic in nature, with larger than life characters who fascinate us with their authentic and colourful dialogue. Brilliant scenes are unveiled as if they were stage sets. The setting is the streets where Stone was raised, and where he pretended to look in shop windows as he listened to the talk of the gangs lounging on the street corners. This is how he described the city in his opening pages:'It was Saturday night, and Waterloo, by immemorial habit, had flung itself on the shops, bent on plunder. For an hour past a stream of people had flowed from the back streets into Botany Road, where the shops stood in shining rows, awaiting the conflict.' Louis Stone's book rightly deserves its place in the classics of Australian literature, and his characters are unforgettable reminders of life in the bursting cities of the early twentieth century.(The US edition was released under the title Larrikin)

ISBN: 9781864760712