Freehold, Verse Novel
Blackheath, NSW: Brandl & Schlesinger, 2005. First Edition. Softcover : pp. [8] 169 [172] : cover image by Alison Hastie.
Light edge-wear. Item #14956
''A compressed epic of conflict, identity, love and loss. Whitby Downs, a famous cattle station on the Clarence River, has been in Whitby hands since the 1840s but now they are selling up. Or are they? Family conflicts, generational splits, commercial opportunism – nothing is black and white in the fight over Whitby Downs. Freehold, Geoff Page’s third verse novel, from its opening section, a parallel exchange of nineteenth century letters, takes a profound look at what land can come to mean to its owners across a hundred and fifty years. Or several thousand…'' - Publisher.
Price: $30.00