Sandstone Gothic: Confessions of an accidental academic
Allen & Unwin $19.95pb, 225pp
Memoir
Metropolis
by David McCooey •
In retrospect it’s not surprising that Andrew Riemer wrote so insightfully about Shakespeare’s comedies. Those green worlds of transformation are expressive of longing and nostalgia, of social order being restored through the acceptance and reconciliation of opposing forces. That the brute, material world is partly dealt with through nostalgia, fantasy and parody is an idée fixe of Riemer’s elegantly written autobiographical books.
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