Here's Luck by Lennie Lower
Residing in a run-down Sydney suburb during the Depression, Jack Gudgeon, age 48, is a male-chauvinist, money-owing cynic, layabout, and barroom philosopher. His wife, Agatha, having had more than she can take, has finally walked out on him. With Jack and his equally unreliable adolescent son, Stanley, left to fend for themselves, pandemonium ensues.
Full of sardonic wit and mad capers, father and son blaze a trail of drunken chaos through the city¹s pubs, clubs, race courses, and their own increasingly battered home. Along the way, they fall in with a weird and wondrous assortment of lowlife characters who turn up to enliven the kind of party that Mr. Gudgeon invariably intends to be a "quiet, respectable turnout," but which, somehow, never is.
Format: Hardback | 228 pages
Dimensions (cm): 22.1 x 14.1 x 2 | 310g
Publication Date: 1982
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
Imprint: Angus & Robertson Books
Publication City/Country: Pymble, Sydney, Australia
Language: English
Illustrations note: b&w illustrations
ISBN10: 0207146675
ISBN13: 9780207146671
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. No obvious damage to the cover. The dust jacket is included and in good condition (minor scuff marks along the edges). The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing (very minor creasing on 2 pages only), but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.