The Four-Legged Lottery

by Frank Hardy

T. Werner Laurie, 1958, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, previous owners gift inscription on front endpapers, dustjacket shows some edge and shelf wear with some rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, minor discoloration (see photographs)

“The Four-Legged Lottery shows that Hardy has lost none of his skill.  By an ingenious plot construction, he takes the reader into two worlds at once – the cold narrow bitter world of jail, and the careless, warm-blooded but corrupt world of the race track.  The story moves to a tragic climax of tremendous dramatic impact.
Malcolm Muggeridge recently described Hardy as ‘a very Australian Australian’, and nowhere are Australia and the Australian character described so vividly as in Hardy’s novels, short stories and plays.”