| #4449580 in Books | Prion | 2001-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.10 x1.14 x4.30l,.73 | File Name: 1853754285 | 286 pages |
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Probably a terrific book, the embryo of much Australian humour|By Phillip Kimber|Probably a terrific book, the embryo of much Australian humour, but this edition chops words off half way though at the end of each line, leaving hanging - not even between syllables, but mischievously just anywhere - so the flow is lost. Sorry about that Lennie, you probably put a lot of thought|From Publishers Weekly|First published in 1930, this reissue of what has been hailed as "Australia's funniest book" will leave modern American readers asking, "Says who?" Lower's pursuit of irony and folly is tireless. But with a trifling plot line used primari
Residing in a run-down Sydney suburb during the Depression, Jack Gudgeon, age 48, is a male chauvinist, money-owing cynic, layabout, and barroom philosopher. His wife, Agatha, having had more than she can take, has finally walked out on him. With Jack and his equally unreliable adolescent son, Stanley, left to fend for themselves, pandemonium ensues. Full of sardonic wit and mad capers, father and son blaze a trail of drunken chaos through the city's pubs, clu... [PDF.kh89] Here's Luck (Prion Humour Classics) Rating: 3.66 (599 Votes)
