The Shell of the Old by Ian Bedford

The Shell of the Old

by Ian Bedford

Rigby, 1981 [First Edition], ISBN 0727014811, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dust-jacket shows a little edge and shelf wear (see photographs)

"It is the centenary year in Carrietown, a shipping and mining port in north-eastern Australia.  Unless, like the Aborigines, you were born in this country, you needed a particular reason for being there.  Edmund de Belin had one, but it was fourteen years old.  He was an apostle of individualism, a bush anarchist upholding paradoxical freedoms.  He still is, but fewer people are interested in his ideas now.  He even feels a bit of a fraud.  Might that be why Kay is leaving him?"