{"product_id":"9781513291123","title":"Rigby's Romance (Mint Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003eRigby's Romance (1921) is a novel by Joseph Furphy. Written under his pseudonym \"Tom Collins,\" Rigby's Romance is a sequel of sorts to Such is Life, a unique and challenging story that took decades to achieve a proper audience. Earning comparisons to the works of Melville and Twain, Furphy's novel is considered a landmark of Australian literature. \"Just as a bale of wool is dumped, by hydraulic pressure, to less than half its normal size, I scientifically compressed something like twenty-four hours' sleep into the interval between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. Then a touch of what you call dyspepsia and I call laziness, kept me debating with myself for another swift-running hour.\" Between such beguiling narration and lively conversations with the characters he meets on his travels through the Australian outback, Tom Collins presents himself as a philosophizing everyman, a prototype of such characters as Joyce's Leopold Bloom and Beckett's Molloy. Journeying in search of his friend Jefferson Rigby, a gentleman and adventurer like himself, Collins reflects on their history together and longs for his company. When the two meet up, they engage in a long discussion on politics and the nature of humanity, touching on topics as strange and diverse as Australia's legendary wildlife. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Joseph Furphy's Rigby's Romance is a classic work of Australian literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mint Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48838312952043,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":20.12,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781513291123-1.jpg?v=1781686308","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781513291123","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}