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In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.A.D. Hope has described Hal Porter as "the most distinctive and perhaps the most distinguished writer of short stories" in Australia. He is also a major novelist and this important volume makes available a revised edition of Hal Porter's first novel A Handful of Pennies as well as eleven of his brilliant stories.Included too are all the various versions of Porter's screenplay outline "The Jetty" (one of the segments of the Tim Burstall film Libido) along with the author's afterthoughts on the film and his subsequently written short story version.Hal Porter's autobiographical writings are represented by an extract from The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony - regarded by many as his masterpiece - and there are poems and drawings which show his characteristic eye for detail.The section On Writers and Writing gives Porter's view on his own work and that of other Australian authors.
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- Title Hal Porter
- Author Hal Porter; Mary Lord
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Publisher Univ of Queensland Pr, St Lucia
- Date 1980
- ISBN 9780702214660
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Hal Porter: A Handful of Pennies
by Edited by Mary Lord
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- Paperback
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780702214660 / 0702214663
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