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Published 01-03-2013
ISBN 9780522864311
Pages 432
Subjects Biography: general Biography: historical, political and military Society and culture: general
Imprint MUP Digital

Christina Stead

Hazel Rowley

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Paperback Hardback eBook
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Published 01-03-2013
ISBN 9780522864311
Pages 432
Subjects Biography: general Biography: historical, political and military Society and culture: general
Imprint MUP Digital

Inside the Wilderness of Mirrors is Paul’s unique insight into how Australia saw the threat from the Soviet Union during the Cold War era and beyond.

This new edition of Hazel Rowley's highly acclaimed biography of Christina Stead brings to life one of the most important literary figures of her age.

Christina Stead left Australia in 1928, aged twenty-six, for Europe, not to return to Australia until she was seventy-two. An intensely private person, Stead lived a life that was stormy, eccentric and brave. Stead's fiction was large and passionate, original and challenging, as was her life. Hazel Rowley's compelling biography is a vigorous, penetrating and sympathetic chronicle of Stead's life and times.

About The Author

Hazel Rowley was born in London and was educated in England and Australia. She is the author of three previous biographies: Christina Stead: A Biography, a New York Times Best Book; Richard Wright: The Life and Times, a Washington Post Best Book; and Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, which has been translated into…