Here's Luck (Prion Humour Classics)

Lower, Lennie

ISBN 10: 1853754285 / ISBN 13: 9781853754289

Published by Prion, 2001

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Synopsis:

Residing in a run-down Sydney suburb during the Depression, Jack Gudgeon, age 48, is a male chauvinist, money-owing, cynic, layabout and bar-room philosopher. His wife, Agatha, having had more than she can take, has finally walked out on him. With Jack and his equally scheming and unreliable son, Stanley, left to fend for themselves (with a little help from Jack's brother-in-law on a visit from the bush) pandemonium ensues. Full of sardonic wit and uproarious antics, father and son blaze a trail of drunken chaos through the city's pubs, clubs, race-courses and their own increasingly battered and beleaguered home. They fall in with a weird and wonderful assortment of low-life characters who turn up to enliven the kind of party which Mr Gudgeon invariably intends to be a "quiet, respectable turnout", but which, somehow, never is. In Here's Luck Lennie Lower gives us all the slapstick of a Marx Brothers film, the no-nonsense deadpan delivery of Mark Twain and the off-kilter comic inebriation of Flann O'Brien. Yet it is a totally original work of pure Australian genius.

About the Author: Lennie Lower was born in Dubbo and lived in Darlinghurst, Sydney, where, according to one of his colleagues, he learnt to write Australian "as she is spoke". After leaving the navy, he served time on a number of newspapers and his witty columns made him one of the most loved characters in Australian journalism throughout the 30s and 40s. A hard-drinking, unpredictable man, he was often the despair of sub-editors and more than a handful for proprietors. Here's Luck - his only novel, published in 1930 - quickly became a bestseller. Though he died in 1947 at the age of 43, his novel remains a monument of native Australian humour that is still unsurpassed.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Here's Luck (Prion Humour Classics)
Publisher: Prion
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Very Good