Narrated by a philosophizing, wandering gentleman, this story of the Australian outback unfolds in fits and starts, forming an abstract portrait of life in one of Earth's harshest environments. Part wiseman, part working man, Tom Collins is a classic unreliable narrator with an eye for the weird and wonderful. Such is Life is a novel by Joseph Furphy.
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Joseph Furphy (1843-1912) was an Australian novelist. Born in Yering, Victoria, he was raised in a family of Irish emigrants from County Armagh. Educated by his mother, he read mostly Shakespeare and the Bible in his youth before moving to Kangaroo Ground, where a school was opened by the local parents. As a teenager, he began working on his father's farm, later marrying Leonie Germain and taking over her family plot. Forced to switch from farming to animal husbandry due to a period of financial loss, he continued his literary interests as a published poet and short story writer and later fictionalized his agricultural experience in Such is Life (1903), a novel of rural Australia he wrote under the pseudonym "Tom Collins." Largely ignored upon publication, Such is Life is now considered a classic work of Australian literature and perhaps one of the first novels written in an Australian English dialect.
