| Harland's Half Acre Contributor(s): Malouf, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679776478 ISBN-13: 9780679776475 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $11.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1997 Annotation: This is a haunting portrait of an Australian artist, a man who is at once a genuine visionary and a flawed savior to his disintegrating family. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 5.27" W x 8.11" (0.61 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centered on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past. The story spans Frank's life; from before the First World War, through years as a swaggie in the Great Depression and Brisbane in the forties, to his retirement to a patch of Australian scrub where he at last takes possession of his dream. Harland's Half Acre tells how a man sets out to recover the land his ancestors discovered and then lost and how, in fulfilment, this vision becomes a new reality. |