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Germaine by Elizabeth Kleinhenz & Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers

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December 2018, no. 407

Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz

Knopf, $39.99 hb, 432 pp, 9780143782841

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Unfettered and Alive: A memoir by Anne Summers

Allen & Unwin, $39.95 hb, 512 pp, 9781743318416

Germaine by Elizabeth Kleinhenz & Unfettered and Alive by Anne Summers

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December 2018, no. 407

When Anne Summers first met Germaine Greer at a raucous house party in Balmain in the early 1970s, she threw up in front of her after too many glasses of Jim Beam. Almost fifty years later, she muses that perhaps that early encounter was one of the reasons why they ‘never really connected’. After reading Summers’ latest memoir, Unfettered and Alive, in tandem with Elizabeth Kleinhenz’s Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer, I can think of a few others.

Zora Simic reviews 'Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer' by Elizabeth Kleinhenz and 'Unfettered and Alive: A memoir' by Anne Summers

Germaine: The life of Germaine Greer

by Elizabeth Kleinhenz

Knopf, $39.99 hb, 432 pp, 9780143782841

Book 2 Cover Small (400 x 600)

Unfettered and Alive: A memoir

by Anne Summers

Allen & Unwin, $39.95 hb, 512 pp, 9781743318416

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