The Big Smoke by D’Arcy Niland

The Big Smoke

by D’Arcy Niland

Angus and Robertson, 1959, [Second Impression], hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, age toned pages, price-clipped dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with some rubbing, bumping, and chipping, some discolouration and creasing (see photographs)

“Ranging in time from early in the century until the 1920s, this unusual novel has as its dominating figure a big city – the Big Smoke – that moulds and is moulded by the lives of its people.  The chronicle of the young man who began life as “Jack Johnson’s boy” expounds the theme that we are all taking part in the life stories of many others.  Dramatic in conception, the novel thus presents an interwoven cross-section of individuals who touch and influence one another’s destinies for better or worse.”