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Hasluck, Nicholas, 1942-
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  • xiii, 252 p. ; 21 cm. #100923 First Edition
  • Introduction / Veronica Brady
  • I. Law. Oxford Days. Devising Legal Fictions. Practising with Holmes a Court. The Trial of the Clarke Brothers. The Antipodean Panoptique: Penal Colonies Down Under. House of Mirrors. The Saga of Legal Eagle
  • II. Literature. Getting Published. Impudent Friends. The Past’s Deceitftd Dream. A Sense of Time and Place – The Untold Story. Untitled Prose Piece VII. Encounters with Patrick White. The Remains of Excellence
  • III. Politics. The Public Figures Defence. Inside the Australia Council. Gore Vidal’s Empire. Under the Uglich Bell. Deaths and Entrances. The Arts Labyrinth
  • IV. Places. Writing Places. Cracker Barrels and Covered Bridges. On Top of Old Smoky. Faulkner Country. Farewell to the Widow Douglas.
  • Hasluck, Nicholas, 1942-
  • Novelists, Australian — 20th century — Biography
  • Lawyers — Australia — Biography

Additional Information

AuthorHasluck, Nicholas, 1942-
Number of pages252
PublisherUniversity of Western Australia Press
Year Published1993
Binding Type

Softcover

Book Condition

Near Fine

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