Moonlite by Foster David (15 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: USED Good.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading.…

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Paperback. David Foster, Penguin Books Ltd. FROM THE MOST REMOTE AND ONLY PAGAN BRITISH ISLE COMES MOONLITE MCDUFFIE, A PHYSICAL AND INTELLECTUAL ODDITY, WHOSE MATHEMATICAL AND LAY PREACHING TALENTS COMBINE TO GAIN HIM ADMISSION TO JESUS CHRIST COLLEGE, NEWBRIDGE. ALAS, COLLEGE IS NOT ALL ITS NAME MIGHT IMPLY, AND AFTER A SHORT, BUT DISASTROUS STAY THERE MOONLITE FINDS HIMSELF ON BOARD AN EMIGRANT SHIP BOUND FOR THE NEW WEST HIGHLANDS. ONCE ON THE GOLDFIELDS, HE QUICKLY LOSES HIS MEMORY AND ACQUIRES A TAST FOR DRINK. WHEN WE LEAVE HIM, MOONLITE IS ENDORSED AS THE LOCAL MAMBER AND DESTINED FOR THE PREMIERSHIP. MOONLITE IS A MULTIFARIOUS, DOWNBEAT TRAGI-COMEDY, WITHOUT THE MUFFLED CREPE OF PHILOSOPHICAL DESPAIR. IT DELIBERATELY BREAKS THE ILLUSIONS IT CREATES, BUT PRESERVES ITS IMAGES WITHIN A STYLISTICALLY COMPLEX LAYERING OF SCIENTIFIC, RELIGIOUS AND OCCULT SPECULATIONS. IT IS A FARCE IN FOUR ACTS, A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINALITY AND POWER, A LAMENTATION FOR LOST INNOCENCE, AND IN THE LIMIT, A LARRIKIN ALLEGORY OF COLONIAL CONSCIOUSNESS. Paperback.…

SOFTCOVER. 1996, Reprint. A very good copy. {"length" => ["20"], "width" => ["13"], "units" => ["Centimeters"]}.

Medium Softcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Not Applicable. Reprint. Medium softcover, reprint, 172gms, 213 pages. Book is in good condition with mild general wear and tear and heavy page discolouration/spotting throughout. There is a small pen marking from a previous owner on the inside front page, otherwise no other pre-loved markings.…

[x]+223pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper, a near fine copy. Winner of the National Book Council Award, 1981. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 223pp, text clean and tight, no inscriptions, Very Good / Good dustwrapper. wrapper has a small tear at top of spine, NBCA sticker on front panel. ISBN: 0333337484.

Hardback. David Foster, Melbourne, Macmillan. Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe novel "Moonlite" by David Foster reimagines the life of the notorious nineteenth century Australian bushranger Captain Moonlite, transforming his violent career of robbery, imprisonment, and execution into a darkly comic and philosophically charged meditation on masculinity, colonial society, and the mythology of the Australian outlaw. Hardback.…

First edition. Hardcover. Top edge slightly foxed, otherwise very good in very good dustjacket (with a (removable) sticker on the front panel, noting the novel as the "Winner 1981 National Book Council Award".

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 223pp. Dj sl.torn else a very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author on the title page. Set on a remote Scottish island in the 19th century, our protagonist Finbar MacDuffie is sent to an English university, then to the goldfields of the colonies of Australia, where life is at its most raw.…

Or.bds. Dustjacket. 223pp. Dj sl.torn else a very good copy. 1st ed. Signed by the author on the title page. Set on a remote Scottish island in the 19th century, our protagonist Finbar MacDuffie is sent to an English university, then to the goldfields of the colonies of Australia, where life is at its most raw.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some wear around edges of boards and spine. Edges, particularly top edge, foxed and stained. Page 4 creased in bottom corner. Else book is in good condition. Dustwrapper is rubbed and its spine is discoloured, else in very good condition. *We always describe the faults of our books meticulously; they usually present better than they sound.…

Melbourne: Macmillan 1981. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjacket. x 224pp. 1st ed. Author's inscribed and signed presentation copy to fellow Australian author Eric Rolls whose ms. annots and critique appear on both half-title page & verso. NOTE: Winner of the 1981 National Book Council Award.