Day Of My Delight
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Few memoirs capture the elegance and melancholy of a vanishing world quite like Day of My Delight, in which Martin Boyd chronicles his remarkable life across two continents — from the sun-drenched drawing rooms of Melbourne's colonial elite to the ancient piazzas and studios of Europe. Born into one of Australia's most celebrated artistic dynasties, Boyd charts his journey through a childhood steeped in privilege and aesthetic sensitivity, his experiences during the First World War, his pursuit of a religious vocation, and his ultimate surrender to the literary life that would define him. Written with Boyd's characteristic wit, wistfulness, and unflinching self-awareness, the memoir presents a portrait of a man perpetually caught between worlds — Australian by birth, European by temperament, and restless by nature. Day of My Delight stands as an essential document of the Australian cultural experience in the early twentieth century, illuminating a society simultaneously yearning for Old World refinement and grappling with a nascent national identity. Boyd's prose is luminous and discursive, moving between anecdote and reflection with the grace of a natural storyteller, and his keen social observations carry the authority of an insider who chose, ultimately, to become an outsider. For readers drawn to the grand tradition of literary autobiography, this intimate self-portrait raises a quiet but persistent question: can a man of such divided loyalties ever truly find a home?
Author: Martin Boyd
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Yellowed
Few memoirs capture the elegance and melancholy of a vanishing world quite like Day of My Delight, in which Martin Boyd chronicles his remarkable life across two continents — from the sun-drenched drawing rooms of Melbourne's colonial elite to the ancient piazzas and studios of Europe. Born into one of Australia's most celebrated artistic dynasties, Boyd charts his journey through a childhood steeped in privilege and aesthetic sensitivity, his experiences during the First World War, his pursuit of a religious vocation, and his ultimate surrender to the literary life that would define him. Written with Boyd's characteristic wit, wistfulness, and unflinching self-awareness, the memoir presents a portrait of a man perpetually caught between worlds — Australian by birth, European by temperament, and restless by nature. Day of My Delight stands as an essential document of the Australian cultural experience in the early twentieth century, illuminating a society simultaneously yearning for Old World refinement and grappling with a nascent national identity. Boyd's prose is luminous and discursive, moving between anecdote and reflection with the grace of a natural storyteller, and his keen social observations carry the authority of an insider who chose, ultimately, to become an outsider. For readers drawn to the grand tradition of literary autobiography, this intimate self-portrait raises a quiet but persistent question: can a man of such divided loyalties ever truly find a home?