Australian Lives: An Oxford Anthology
OUP, $39.95 hb, 298 pp
Biography
Australian Lives: An Oxford Anthology edited by Joy Hooton
by David McCooey •
Joy Hooton must know more about Australian autobiography than anyone else. Her critical and bibliographical works are now complemented by this marvellous anthology – humorous, plangent, and surprising. It replaces the more literary Penguin anthology by the Colmers (an important collection, though now somewhat outdated), and more than accounts for the period not dealt with in Gillian Whitlock’s impressive UQP anthology of contemporary Australian autobiography.
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