The Travelling Entertainer (1989, First Ed.)

Second-Hand

Excellent condition for age of book

The Travelling Entertainer shows Elizabeth Jolley preoccupied with various kinds of darkness.

Her characters, ordinary people living unexceptional lives in hospitals, in the suburbs and in the bush, stumble through their experiences, struggling to piece together meanings from daily life.

But it is Elizabeth Jolley's great power and originality as a writer, the ability to render a world of depression and despair with enormous sensitivity and a kind of whimsical charm, that makes The Travelling Entertainer such an exhilarating collection of stories.