The Hills of Apollo Bay by Peter Cowan

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker.

Richard is a young writer running from his hometown of Perth in search of a freer existence in Melbourne. His best friend is an ex-boxer turned black marketeer and his girlfriend is an old-fashioned âtartâ with heart.

Reaching out across the decades this novel measures the urgencies of the past and present, private and collective. With profound dismay about the directions we have followed in the post-war world.

Cowan challenges some of our most cherished assumptions about our identity, our culture and the land. In this novel which is close, poignant and quietly impassioned, Peter Cowan brings us suddenly from the burgeoning cultural life of the 1940's to a radical questioning of the present - and the future.