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Creative Lives: Personal Papers of Australian Writers and Artists

$39.95

ISBN: 9780642276568
Author: PENELOPE HANLEY
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01/10/2009

RRP: $39.95

Miles Franklin, Xavier Herbert, Christina Stead, Patrick White, Dorothy Hewett, Kevin Gilbert, Thomas Keneally and Mem Fox all have stories hidden in the Manuscripts Collection of the National Library of Australia. Creative Lives brings together some of their stories and those of other well-known Australian literary figures in a book generously illustrated with personal photographs, sketches and paintings, diaries and drafts, and cards and letters—neatly typed or scrawled and claret-stained. Through her travels among the papers of 22 authors, Penelope Hanley deepens our insights into their creative lives—their feelings and foibles, their fears and triumphs. Read about convict James Tucker’s gruesome floggings, Henry Lawson’s sporadic imprisonment and alcoholism, and how Judy Cassab outwitted the Nazis. Was Christina Stead really ‘all genius and no talent’? Why did Eric Rolls turn down the opportunity to make a killing on the stock market? Find out the answers to these questions and discover much more about the famous Australians in Creative Lives.

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