| Xavier Herbert: A Biography Contributor(s): de Groen, Frances (Author) |
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ISBN: 0702230219 ISBN-13: 9780702230219 Publisher: University of Queensland Pr (Australia) OUR PRICE: $44.96 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 1980 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98225941 |
| Physical Information: 349 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Australian - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This ground-breaking first biography explores the contradictions at the core of Xavier Herbert's turbulent life and career (1901-1984). Charting his lifelong quest to discover the reality of his existence and to forge a larger-than-life identity, it highlights Herbert's compulsion to write and illuminates his abiding themes. Labelled at various times ratbag and mug genius as well as master writer, Xavier Herbert led a life characterised by controversy and contradiction. His signature books, Capricornia (1938) and Poor Fellow My country (1975), were to change the face of Australian novel writing. |