Farmer Beverley (79 results)

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Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

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Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing paperback. SIGNED by author on a bookplate decal on inside cover (signature only). Signed by Author.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A new edition of Beverley Farmers classic 1980 debut, out of print for many years. Alone captures the emergence of one of Australias most powerful and distinctive writers.Set in Melbourne in the late 1950s, and taking place over the course of two days and nights, Alone chronicles the feelings of obsession and hopelessness, isolation and desire provoked by the ending of an intimate relationship. A young woman, a fledgling writer, recalls her passion for her female lover, who has left her. She is estranged from her family and has dropped out of university, and is contemplating ending her life. As she travels through the night-time streets, industrial areas and boarding houses of a Melbourne fallen into economic depression and cultural malaise, she reflects on the days and months past that have brought her to despair.Written in a style threaded with gothic motifs, and shadowed by the constant threat of sexual violence, Beverley Farmers debut novel captures the romantic intensity and ironic reversals of youthful longing. It displays her remarkable capacity for bringing different forms of writing together in a single work, prose and poetry, dialogue and dramatic monologue, as well as her reflections on other writers work. Based partly on her own experiences, Alone shows the formation of a literary voice in writing that is both heightened and flowing, lyrical and precise.Praise for Beverley Farmer:As she explores the frailty of emotional experience, Farmer places her characters in a luminous domain of elemental sensual experience Cassandra PybusBeverley Farmers expansive curiosity and regard for microcosmic significance sharpen a readers attention to all things lived, dreamed, and observed. Josephine Rowe A new edition of Beverley Farmers classic 1980 debut, out of print for many years. Alone captures the emergence of one of Australias most powerful and distinctive writers. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The three long essays that make up The Bone House are an extended meditation on the life of the body and the life of the mind, each based on a single theme and woven out of the same few elemental symbols of earth, and water, fire and blood, light and darkness.What does art know that we do not? How does the image have such a hold on us all? Alongside the urge to grasp the world, to abstract and delve, is the urge to make our visions known, somehow to fix the moment in time in its fullness of meaning. In the essays, this hoard of moments takes the form of a mosaic, composed of myth, poetry and fable, of relics of the past, of explorations and illuminations and surface impressions. Set out like a commonplace book, they can be read in any sequence, or savoured for their detail.'Each passagefeels individually, organically formed, sustained of its own history, its ownair and light.' Josephine Rowe in LitHub'Farmeruses language arrestingly, and is arrested by it, and imparts this throughoutto her readerHere is a book not to rush through, but to savour, to put downand pick up again. It's the kind of book that sends us to other books, to learnmore.' Canberra Times The three long essays that make up The Bone House are an extended meditation on the life of the body and the life of the mind, each based on a single theme and woven out of the same few elemental symbols of earth, and water, fire and blood, light and darkness. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Longlistedfor the Stella Prize 2018ThisWater is the lastwork of fiction by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists,and a pioneer of women's writing in this country. It is a collection of fiveinterwoven tales, each has a woman at its centre: in each the women speak, act,think for themselves, in opposing or escaping from an oppressive authority.Praise for ThisWater: Five Tales:'Farmer'sprose is virtuosic, she is a stylist unlike any other living Australianwriter.' Australian Book Review'Like theincoming tide, she probes everywhere, and her writing, like that of GerardManley Hopkins, revels in the peaks and troughs of the English language.' InsideStory'Splendidlightlytouched by the world of myths and legendsilluminated by Farmer's masterlycontrol of structure, tone and imagery.' Sydney Morning Herald Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2018 This Water Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Portrait of a widow in mourning by one of Australias most important women writersThe Seal Woman was first published to acclaim in 1992 but has been out of print for many years. The novel explores the mind of a middle-aged Danish woman mourning the recent death of her husband at sea, in a cottage lent to her by friends in the seaside village in Victoria where she had spent her honeymoon. Farmers prose is marked by the suppleness of its language, and its extraordinary attention to detail. Dagmars observations of the sea and its creatures, the light, the mist, the wind, the life of plants are so intense and evocative, it is as if she has dissolved into her surroundings. On the other hand, her passivity leaves her vulnerable to the deceit of others, particularly the man she depends on as her lover. Her retreat into wonder is undercut by a persistent questioning, as to how far it might lead her into a state of submission.The Seal Woman was originally published two years after A Body of Water, an imaginative montage of journal, commonplace book, stories and poems, which it resembles in its own use of mixed sources, from myth and legend and history. In bringing these two books back into print, alongside Farmers first work of fiction Alone, and her last books The Bone House and This Water, Giramondo is building on its commitment, not only to this remarkable author, but to the republication of contemporary classics by Australian women authors. Portrait of a widow in mourning by one of Australias most important women writers Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. *Winner of the Australian Book Design Award 2021: Best Designed Literary Fiction Cover*A new edition of Beverley Farmer's out-of-print classic A Body of Water, which in its mixing of genres essay, memoir, fiction, folk tale opened up new frontiers for Australian literatureA Body of Water was first published thirty years ago. The writing of the book takes place over a year, and portrays a complete cycle in the writer's life. It begins on her forty-sixth birthday, in a period of emotional inhibition and loneliness her marriage has broken down, and she is living on her own. By the end of the cycle the narrator has written short stories and poems, which are included in the book, alongside essays about the writing process, journal entries, excerpts from books she has been reading, spiritual meditations, and finely detailed observations of the life around her.The title A Body of Water could be taken to refer to the book's settings along the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria, with its bays, the outer harbour, and the lighthouse, standing like a sentinel at the entrance to the ocean. It also suggests the diverse material which fills the book, like a body of water with all that it contains and nurtures. Throughout, one is aware of the the writer's own body, as an entity which shifts its identity like water, with its changes of mood, relationships and reflections.'Beverley Farmer's expansive curiosity and appreciation for microcosmic significance sharpen a reader's attention to all things lived, dreamed, and observed.' Josephine Rowe'A bold and beautiful, genre-defying book, weaving together process and product, reflections on reading and the luminous moments of everyday life into a work that shimmers with allusion, insight and charm. It remains as striking and important a book now as it was in its original context.' Fiona Wright A new edition of Beverley Farmer's out-of-print classic A Body of Water , which in its mixing of genres essay, memoir, fiction, folk tale opened up new frontiers for Australian literature Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Beverley Farmer is one of our finest prose writers, but her new book, For the Seasons: Haikus, is likely to make her reputation as a poet too. The manuscript of For the Seasons, composed over twenty-five years ago, was rediscovered by the critic and scholar Lyn Jacobs after Farmers death in 2018. The collection has never been published in full before. It joins the three prose works by Farmer Giramondo has now brought back into print: the novels Alone and The Seal Woman and the journal A Body of Water. The haikus collected in For the Seasons are arranged in sections, beginning with Spring then progressing to Summer and Autumn and ending with Winter. One is immediately struck by the delicacy of Farmers observations, drawn from her immersion in the coastal landscape around Point Lonsdale on the Bellarine Peninsula in southern Victoria. The constraints imposed by the haiku form encourage attention to the finest details and textures of light and colour, of air and sand and sea and foster an awareness of the transient life they hold, its beauty, vitality and decay. The emotion is all in the detail, the I barely features, yet the mood of the seasons, and their progression is keenly registered. Farmers poetry is remarkable in this respect, modest, self-effacing, and yet revelatory in its intensity. Beverley Farmer is one of our finest prose writers, but her new book, For the Seasons: Haikus, is likely to make her reputation as a poet too. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Past owner's name inscribed, front endpapers.

Soft cover. Condition: Worn - Age Marks, Browning. Age spots and browning. Inscription inside.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 324 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. Penguin Books New/ Very Fine.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Page edges tanned, owner's inscription. Orders received by 3pm Sent from the UK that weekday.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Foxing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 324 pages.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Collection of 15 short stories by Beverley Farmer. Printed in Australia. Slight handling wear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid softcover copy. 178pp. SB-16.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 192 pages. Cover very worn, Text tanned 178 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. Short Stories Set In Greec e And Australia.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Home Time: Stories This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Condition: New. Farmer, Beverley (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition. Farmer, Beverley (illustrator).

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Uncommon collection of 39 short stories by Beverley Farmer. From rear cover: "Beverley Farmer's reputation as a deeply sensitive and lyrical writer was established with her short stories. Her two collections Milk and Home Time are included here with five uncollected stories and others which were part of A Body of Water. The stories in this richly rewarding collection unfold in the order in which they were written". With acknowledgments at rear. First published in 1996, this copy is the 2004 reprint. Printed in Australia. Very slight handling wear, former owner's name in black marker to inside front cover, otherwise a very nice clean tight solid softcover copy. vi + 433pp. Scarce. SB-66.…