{"product_id":"my-brilliant-career-miles-franklin-9781548303013","title":"My Brilliant Career","description":"A few months before I left Australia I got a letter from the bush signed \"Miles Franklin\", saying that the writer had written a novel, but knew nothing of editors and publishers, and asking me to read and advise. Something about the letter, which was written in a strong original hand, attracted me, so I sent for the MS., and one dull afternoon I started to read it. I hadn't read three pages when I saw what you will no doubt see at once-that the story had been written by a girl. And as I went on I saw that the work was Australian-born of the bush. I don't know about the girlishly emotional parts of the book-I leave that to girl readers to judge; but the descriptions of bush life and scenery came startlingly, painfully real to me, and I know that, as far as they are concerned, the book is true to Australia-the truest I ever read. I wrote to Miles Franklin, and she confessed that she was a girl. I saw her before leaving Sydney. She is just a little bush girl, barely twenty-one yet, and has scarcely ever been out of the bush in her life. She has lived her book, and I feel proud of it for the sake of the country I came from, where people toil and bake and suffer and are kind; where every second sun-burnt bushman is a sympathetic humorist, with the sadness of the bush deep in his eyes and a brave grin for the worst of times, and where every third bushman is a poet, with a big heart that keeps his pockets empty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Miles Franklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1548303011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781548303013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 244\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.51d","brand":"Miles Franklin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44124843475199,"sku":"9781548303013","price":15.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9fcb1bce-f6a4-4627-bbab-c16e3f39f122.jpg?v=1687439148","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-brilliant-career-miles-franklin-9781548303013","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}