- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Penguin; New edition edition (28 July 1988)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140109668
- ISBN-13: 978-0140109665
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 662,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'The most successful attempt I know to grip the great dreaming Australian enigma by the throat and make it gargle' Evening Standard 'A wildly funny account of his travels; abounding in sharp characterization, crunching dialogue and self-parody, it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page ... A sharp, skilful and brilliantly funny book' Literary Review 'A marvellous read ... he is a comic explorer in the grandest mould' Financial Times 'Entertaining ... this is a book about exotic Australia - the fringes, the deserts, the opal mines, the Aborigines, and the North Queensland rednecks' Guardian
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(2/3/88). HOWARD JACOBSON'S NARRATIVE IS ALWAYS THE EXUBERANCE, THE EXENTRICITY, THE INTEMPERATE VARIETY OF AUSTRALIA. WHETHER HE SUCCEEDED IN FAMILIARISING THE NATIVES WITH THE BRITISH TEMPERAMENT AND CHARACTER IS ANOTHER.
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I first read this book before ever having visited Oz and enjoyed it immensely - it certainly whetted my appetite to visit Down Under. I re-read it again recently while actually travelling in Australia and it certainly illuminated my experience of an extraordinary country of many contrasts. Unlike the view of the previous critic here - I found it a highly readable and absorbing book which gets under the skin of Australia and its people . Jacobson can make you laugh out loud or ponder the issues which haunt this nation -even when he addresses contentious matters like aboriginal land rights it is always from a keen observer's eye and with great affection. If you want to get to know a country -learn a little about it's history, and get to know it's people - this book will certainly do that.Highly recommended.
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A thoroughly good read, as well as being a perceptive record of a journey round the geography, history and politics of a fascinating continent. I had, myself,just returned from a six-week travelling holiday in Australia when I read the book. Our trip was less ambitious than the Jacobsons though parts of our routes overlapped. Despite the thirty-year interval, much of it still rang true. Highly recommended.
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Jacobson hasn't quite the relaxed humour of Bill Bryson, nor does he look for dirt as Theroux did in parts of England, instead he listens,observes and often interacts with people wherever he finds them, bush or city. The result is funnier, more brutally honest and insightful than any other book I've read about Australia. Serious, hurtful and possibly offensive at times but never dull nor far from a laugh...or the truth. Intellectual, Jacobson at times suffers both nature and people but he is almost always accommodating and always brilliantly descriptive of both. His writing is of a high order (at times, you'll likely need a dictionary or just ignore and read on) and the book once read, invites repeated dipping into. It made me realize just how ordinary most writing is and how limited my own. I highly recommend this book.
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Like the Curates egg!
First read the book in 1989 after my first visit to Oz. I couldn't find much to relate to, as his narrative on the east coast was sparse to say the least. Read more
Published on 6 May 2001
A VERY DIFFICULT READ
Whlist studying the pastoral at university we were asked to read jacobsons account of a trip down under. Read more
Published on 25 Feb 2000 by paula_kelly_irl@yahoo.com
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