Kangaroo

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Times House
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 1986
Edition: Reprint

Description: 402 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Kangaroo is D. H. Lawrences eighth novel, set in Australia. He wrote the first draft in just forty-five days while living south of Sydney, in 1922, and revised it three months later in New Mexico. The descriptions of the country are vivid and sympathetic and the book fuses lightly disguised autobiography with an exploration of political ideas at an immensely personal level. Based on a collation of the manuscript, typescripts and first editions, this text of Kangaroo is closest to what Lawrence would have expected to see in print. There is a full textual apparatus of variants, a comprehensive introduction giving the background and history of composition and publication and a summary of contemporary reviewers opinions. Explanatory notes elucidate the many geographical, political and literary allusions in the text; there are three maps and an appendix detailing Australian locations.

ISBN: 085835716X