Description

• First Printing [The Viking Press, New York, 1980]; [xii], 337, [3 blank] pages; blue cloth spine over red papered boards, gold titling to spine, gold SH on front board, corners bumped, top edge sunned, base rubbed, a very good copy; in like dustjacket, unclipped [$11.95], rubbed & bumped along edges, a few small chips, rear panel creased
• One of Australia’s finest ex-pat authors. In addition to this, her most celebrated novel, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award, her short stories were published to great acclaim in The New Yorker [winning a First Prize in the O. Henry Short Story awards] & her final novel The Great Fire won both the National Book Award for fiction and the Miles Franklin Award
• ISBN: 0-670-72426-2 / 0670724262