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Such Is Life

Such Is Life

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Such Is Life: Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins by Tom Collins

A classic of the Australian outback, Such Is Life is the farcical, tragic reminiscences of Tom Collins, philosopher and rogue.

As Tom drives his team across the plains of the Riverina and northern Victoria, he gets entangled in the fate of others like Rory O'Halloran, the two Alfs (Nosey and Warrigal) and Hungry Buckley of Baroona recreating the humour, the pathos, the irony of life in the bush. His is the tough-talking, law-dodging world of the 1880s, where swagmen and bullockies slept under the stars with ‘grandeur, peace and purity above; squalor, worry and profanity below’.

These inspired yarns, ‘fatally governed by an inveterate truthfulness’, are woven into one of the greatest books of Australian literature, combining a genius for story-telling with a wry wit and a deep feeling for the harsh sun-baked land and the people who worked it..

  • Format: Paperback
  • Published: 1980
  • Edition: Reprint
  • Pages: 371

Paperback pre-owned book in good condition, some shelf wear and tear on book cover edges/corners ; spine cracked at p260, pages still intact ; slight discolouration of cover due to age. 

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