A Fortunate Life
by A.B. Facey
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670807079
- ISBN 13
- 9780670807079
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About This Item
Hardcover Cloth 331 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Very Good. Viking Press edition 1986. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. Price clipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few wrinkles. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Albert Barnett Facey was born in 1894 in Maidstone, Victoria & grew up on the Kalgoorlie goldfields & in the wheat-belt of Western Australia. His father died before he was two. He was deserted by his mother soon afterwards. He was looked after by his grandmother until he was eight, when he went out to work.
His many jobs included droving, hammering spikes on the railway line from Merredin to Wickepin & boxing in a travelling troupe.
He was in the 11th Battalion at the Gallipoli landing. After the war, he became a farmer under the Soldier Settlement Scheme but was forced off the land during the Depression. He joined the tramways & was active in the Tramways Union. Having no formal education, he taught himself to read & write.
Facey made the first notes of his life soon after WWI, filling notebooks with accounts of his experiences. Finally, on his children's urging, he submitted a hand-written manuscript to the Fremantle Arts Centre Press. He died in 1982, nine months after A Fortunate Life had been published to wide acclaim.
"I have lived a very good life, it has been very rich & full. I have been very fortunate & I am thrilled by it when I look back."--A.B. Facey
Synopsis
A Fortunate Life is an autobiographical drama novel written by Albert Facey and was written in 1981 (nine months before his death) and tells the complete story of his life. It chronicles his early life in Western Australia, his experiences as a private during the Gallipoli campaign of World War I and his return to civilian life after the war. It also documents his extraordinary life of hardship, loss, friendship and love.
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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 656890
- Title
- A Fortunate Life
- Author
- A.B. Facey
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670807079
- ISBN 13
- 9780670807079
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- Middlesex, England
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 331
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions;
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