The One Day of the Year

by Alan Seymour

Souvenir Press, 1967, [First British Edition], hardcover

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing toe edges and corners, previous store stamp on front end-paper, remainder line at bottom fore-edge (see photographs)

"Undoubtedly one of Australia's favourite plays, the One Day of the Year explores the universal theme of father-son conflict against the background of the beery haze and the heady, nostalgic sentimentality of Anzac Day. It is a play to make us question a standard institution - Anzac Day, the sacred cow among Australian annual celebrations - but it is the likeability and genuineness of the characters that give the play its memorable qualities: Alf, the nobody who becomes a somebody on this day of days; Mum, the anchor of the family; Hughie, their son, with all the uncertainties and rebelliousness of youth; and Wacka, the Anzac, with his simple, healing wisdom." - Booktopia