Xavier Herbert A Biography
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780702230219 |
Publisher: | University of Queensland Press |
Imprint: | University of Queensland Press |
Pub date: | 01 Jan 1980 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 349 |
Weight: | 567g |
Height: | 228mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 28mm |