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Jane Grant

Modern Love: The Lives of John and Sunday Reed by Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan

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December 2015, no. 377
Jane Grant reviews 'Modern Love' by Lesley Harding and Kendrah Morgan
In December, John decided there was nothing to lose and that he would write to Picasso asking him to view Nolan's work in storage. Sunday translated the letter into French, but even in draft form in English it read as sycophantic and sentimental ... They went to Picasso's apartment to hand deliver the letter and were met at the door by the artist's factotum. One wonders what Picasso ma ...

Kylie Tennant: A life by Jane Grant

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October 2006, no. 285
Jay Thompson reviews 'Kylie Tennant: A life' by Jane Grant

In a 1985 interview, Kylie Tennant was quoted as saying: ‘I … don’t know how people get on who haven’t been raised in a battling Australian family.’ Jane Grant expands upon this image of Tennant as a quintessential ‘Aussie battler’ in her biography of the acclaimed novelist. Kylie Tennant: A life is relatively brief, yet it provides a remarkable insight into the pressures (societal and otherwise) that informed Tennant’s politics and prose.

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