Messengers of Eros: Representations of sex in Australian writing
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, £29.99 pb, 361 pp, 9781443805230
Bigger than God
Like the man with a hammer to whom everything looks like a nail, Xavier Pons knows what he is looking for in his monograph on sex in Australian writing, and makes sure he finds it. Pons, a lecturer in Australian studies at the University of Toulouse, is clearly expert in his subject, and renders his explorations lucidly, at times with great insight, and intelligibly to non-specialist eyes.
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Messengers of Eros: Representations of sex in Australian writing
by Xavier Pons
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, £29.99 pb, 361 pp, 9781443805230
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