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The Pandora Valley

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Sheapast Art and Books
(Sherman Oaks, CA, Estados Unidos de America)

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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Pandora Valley (released in the US under the title Harrowvale by Graham King 1973 HCDJ 1st edition PUBLISHED by William Heinemann VG condition Graham King grew up in the post-depression years. His father, a railwayman, was out of work, and this meant a lot of moving around, finding work on farms. Graham studied mining and geology at Adelaide University in the 1940s, then worked as a draughtsman and cartographer before changing his career and joining the new television station, Channel 9, in 1960. He became involved in newspaper promotion for the Murdoch press at a time when circulation wars were at their peak, and in 1969 went to London to work on News of the World and help launch The Sun, introducing the idea of sectional layout to the British newspaper industry. King's other works include Garden of Zola : Emile Zola and his novels for English readers (1978) and a number of HarperCollins Wordpower books on grammar, punctuation, good writing etc. He also published books on photography and edited Jim White's Diary: A Countryman's Year on the North Downs of Kent (1985). Harrowvale is part of a fruit growing bill valley in south Australia. A 20?year?old named Richie Bonner motorbikes into the district one day in NoVember, 1936, hoping for work picking cherries. Richie has been a plumber's mate and a librarian; he is between jobs and full of dreams. But he allows himself to become trapped in Harrowvale, which. is in reality a doomed valley of played out orchards at the mercy of the Depression, natural disasters, and bad farming. Before you can say John Steinbeck, Richie has a pregnant wife and is related by marriage to a plethora of trouble, including a terrifying assortment of acts of God. Its dark horizon notwithstanding, this is a richly inspiriting book. Graham King sees these rural Australians with a clear, sympathetic and sometimes humorous eye. And he invests his book with the sharp bkuquet of those mean years, a vintage mixture of sunny possibilities and bitter frustrations. "SOME JACKET WEAR, OWNERS LABEL INSIDE, CLEAN AND TIGHT". Nº de ref. del artículo: ABE-1618492994979

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