{"product_id":"2026200015284-secondhand-martin-boyd-a-life","title":"Martin Boyd: A Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew Australian writers lived as richly contradictory a life as Martin Boyd — Anglo-Australian novelist, failed monk, restless expatriate, and one of the most sophisticated literary voices of the twentieth century. Brenda Niall's authoritative biography chronicles Boyd's extraordinary journey from his privileged origins in a celebrated Australian artistic dynasty through decades of self-imposed exile in England and Italy, charting the tensions between belonging and displacement that would fuel his finest fiction, including the celebrated Langton tetralogy.\n\nNiall brings to this portrait a scholar's precision and a storyteller's grace, illuminating the deep cultural and psychological currents that shaped a man perpetually caught between two worlds. She argues compellingly that Boyd's genius lay in his ability to transform personal ambivalence — about class, faith, nationality, and sexuality — into elegant, ironic social comedy of enduring literary merit. A masterwork of Australian literary biography, this life leaves the reader wondering whether Boyd ever truly found the homeland he spent a lifetime searching for.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203206521051,"sku":"2026200015284-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/982ea8a2-6810-494b-8258-df15d3ede173.png?v=1788145708","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015284-secondhand-martin-boyd-a-life","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}