Author: Beaver, Bruce.
Title: You Can't Come Back.
Description: Adelaide Rigby Limited, 1966. 1st ed. Hardback small, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), top edge foxed, edges reverse side jacket lightly foxed (unclipped, minor edgewear), pages lightly toned. 166 pp. First edition. In this short novel by Bruce Beaver, a small party of railway labourers are allotted a week's work and stationed at a large NSW country town. Their daily lives and the experiences that befall them after working hours are described, laconically enough, by a member of the group. The author's first novel is based on his six year's experience as a surveyor's labourer in the Hunter valley and northern New South Wales.

Keywords: australian fiction, transport, railway workers, rural, new south wales (nsw), first edition


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