Life Rarely Tells
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — card cover in good condition with light wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact.
A vivid autobiographical memoir, Life Rarely Tells chronicles the formative years of Jack Lindsay — poet, novelist, and cultural critic — from a disturbed and rebellious childhood in brash Brisbane to his immersion in the rumbustious bohemian literary world of Sydney in the 1920s. Lindsay details his pivotal role in co-founding the Fanfrolico Press in Bloomsbury, an audacious venture that planted a peculiarly Australian sensibility at the heart of English culture. Written with candour and intellectual energy, the narrative presents a compelling portrait of a young man forging an identity across two continents, navigating artistic ambition, radical politics, and personal upheaval. As the first volume of Lindsay's celebrated trilogy of memoirs, it stands as an essential document of Australian literary history and the broader currents of modernist culture between the wars.
Author: Jack Lindsay
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket — card cover in good condition with light wear. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings visible. Binding: Intact.
A vivid autobiographical memoir, Life Rarely Tells chronicles the formative years of Jack Lindsay — poet, novelist, and cultural critic — from a disturbed and rebellious childhood in brash Brisbane to his immersion in the rumbustious bohemian literary world of Sydney in the 1920s. Lindsay details his pivotal role in co-founding the Fanfrolico Press in Bloomsbury, an audacious venture that planted a peculiarly Australian sensibility at the heart of English culture. Written with candour and intellectual energy, the narrative presents a compelling portrait of a young man forging an identity across two continents, navigating artistic ambition, radical politics, and personal upheaval. As the first volume of Lindsay's celebrated trilogy of memoirs, it stands as an essential document of Australian literary history and the broader currents of modernist culture between the wars.