Bobbin Up (40th Anniversary Edition)

Forty years after its first publicaton and several European translations Bobbin Up, a classic of industrial fiction, is coming home. This document of urban working-class life in 1950s Australia is also a remarkably well-crafted novel, combining the shifting narrative viewpoint pioneered by Modernism with a relentless realist mode. Well before the upsurge of feminism Dorothy Hewett homed in on embattled female lives. The book abounds with portraits of working women, married and unmarried, middle-aged and young, zestful and tired. These varied existences form the collective hero(ine) of a novel whose social message has lost nothing of its urgency.

Publisher: The Vulgar Press
Date Published: 1999
Book Condition: Very good softcover with minor edge wear to covers and previous owner’s name on the top of the inside front cover. Otherwise, an unmarked copy internally.