Description
Title: My Brother Jack
Author: Johnston, George
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 27th Edition
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0006169570
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 348 pages
Comments: My Brother Jack is the classic Australian story.
David’s brother was the antithesis of his own “namby-pamby” self during their harassed boyhood. Jack, adventurous, unyielding and leather-tough, had the mettle to carry him through their father’s sadistic beatings and quarrels with their mother and some rough school years. David just survived.
Adolescence gave Jack the happy hobby of “landing a sheila” and sporting her in the rumble of the Australian post-war jazz age. David suffered from the burden of being the “perpetual figure captioned ‘Before’.” But at sixteen David finds his niche in writing and, as the brothers progress through young manhood, their positions are slowly reversed. David’s newspaper career blossoms and through the ambitions of his wife he is well on the way to becoming the “Golden Boy” of the social set. Jack remains just rowdy and uninspired. Inevitably David becomes Jack’s surrogate.
A slow-paced, heavy psychological study for the more patient reader, and certainly a switch from Johnston’s earlier glamor-edged entertainments. (Kirkus Reviews) Product Description Through the story of two brothers who grew up in patriotic, suburban Melbourne, George Johnston created an enduring exploration of two Australian myths – that of the man who loses his soul as he gains worldly success, and that of the tough, honest, Aussie battler.
