Such is Life

I purpose taking certain entries from my diary, and amplifying these to the minutest detail of occurrence or conversation. This will afford to the observant reader a fair picture of life, as that engaging problem has presented itself to me. There is nothing else in literature like Joseph Furphy's comic masterpiece. First published in 1903, it is the story of Tom Collins - Deputy-Assistant-Sub-Inspector of the New South Wales Civil Service, ninth class - and his travels among the rough bullock drivers, squatters and itinerants of the Riverina. A philosophical portrayal of Australian bush life told in 'somewhat discursive style', Such Is Life is hilarious, confounding and inexhaustibly wise.