Martin Boyd (Australian bibliographies) - Softcover
Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by World War I. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life. Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, and an old famly house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expatriates in Rome. In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before World War I, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.
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Brenda Niall is one of Australia's best-known biographers and has won several major literary awards. Her books include The Boyds (2002), Georgiana: A Biography of Georgiana McCrae (1994), Seven Little Billabongs: The World of Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce, and Australia Through the Looking-Glass: Children's Fiction 1830-1980.
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0195505255
- ISBN 13 9780195505252
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages137
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