Martin Boyd: A Life
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Few Australian literary figures led a life as richly contradictory and compellingly itinerant as Martin Boyd — and Brenda Niall's authoritative biography captures every restless, luminous dimension of it. Martin Boyd: a Life chronicles the remarkable story of one of Australia's most distinguished novelists, tracing his journey from the genteel, artistic Boyd family dynasty in Melbourne to the drawing rooms and landscapes of England and Europe that shaped both his sensibility and his fiction. Boyd's lifelong negotiation between two worlds — the colonial Australian society of his birth and the cultured Old World he so ardently sought — forms the beating heart of this meticulously researched biography. Niall writes with elegant precision and critical intelligence, situating Boyd's personal history within the broader currents of twentieth-century Australian and European culture. Her narrative illuminates the tensions of class, identity, religion, and belonging that animate Boyd's celebrated Langton tetralogy and his other major works, revealing how profoundly autobiographical his fiction truly was. A landmark in Australian literary biography, this study leaves the reader with an irresistible urge to return to Boyd's novels and rediscover them anew through the lens of a life fully, and finally, understood.
Author: Brenda Niall
Format: Hardback
Published: 1988, Melbourne University Press
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Few Australian literary figures led a life as richly contradictory and compellingly itinerant as Martin Boyd — and Brenda Niall's authoritative biography captures every restless, luminous dimension of it. Martin Boyd: a Life chronicles the remarkable story of one of Australia's most distinguished novelists, tracing his journey from the genteel, artistic Boyd family dynasty in Melbourne to the drawing rooms and landscapes of England and Europe that shaped both his sensibility and his fiction. Boyd's lifelong negotiation between two worlds — the colonial Australian society of his birth and the cultured Old World he so ardently sought — forms the beating heart of this meticulously researched biography. Niall writes with elegant precision and critical intelligence, situating Boyd's personal history within the broader currents of twentieth-century Australian and European culture. Her narrative illuminates the tensions of class, identity, religion, and belonging that animate Boyd's celebrated Langton tetralogy and his other major works, revealing how profoundly autobiographical his fiction truly was. A landmark in Australian literary biography, this study leaves the reader with an irresistible urge to return to Boyd's novels and rediscover them anew through the lens of a life fully, and finally, understood.