Hardy, Frank. Power Without Glory

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Power Without Glory
by Frank Hardy.

Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1982.
Reprint, hardback. 672 pp.

Jacket illustration: Noel Counihan, “The lobby, Parliament House,”1956.

“Through this epic study of his central character John West, Hardy created a powerful portrayal of inner-Melbourne Carringbush, a suburb in which the possibilities for change were limited to football, gambling and, in Hardy’s view, the largely futile and heavily compromised aspirations afforded by the Australian Labor Party. Hardy’s novel also provided one of the earliest depictions of the developing role of the Catholic-based Movement in labour politics, in the context of the broader fractious relationship between the Communist Party of Australia and the Australian Labor Party.”

Jenny Hocking, ‘Recontesting the cultural cold war: Frank Hardy, Power without glory and criminal libel’, 2001 ASSLH conference.

Condition: Ripped top of dustjacket and minor shelf wear. Otherwise in very good condition.