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Memoir of a scarlet woman

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June 1985, no. 71

Exit Left by Oriel Gray

Penguin, 230pp., $7.95pb

Memoir of a scarlet woman

by
June 1985, no. 71

How do we explain our fascination with autobiography? Is it simply the pleasure of vicarious experience, or is it perhaps the self-indulgence of nostalgia, or even the addiction to gossip, the wish to know the hidden weaknesses of the famous or infamous? Oriel Gray’s Exit Left satisfies all these expectations, worthy and unworthy, as it takes us back to an earlier Australia which would appear to most of us remote, simplistic and naive.

Exit Left

Exit Left

by Oriel Gray

Penguin, 230pp., $7.95pb

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