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Beverley Farmer

Beverley Farmer reviews 'Strong-man from Piraeus and other stories' by George Johnston and Charmian Clift and 'The World of Charmian Clift' by Charmian Clift

July 1984, no. 62 01 July 1984
On Hydra last year an old grocer wound up his reminiscences of George Johnston and Charmian Clift with a tolerant grin. ‘They both drank a lot,’ he told me. ‘They had to – yia na katevei i skepsi.’ For the thought to be let down: he used the same verb as for a cow letting her milk flow. ‘They drank a lot; they wrote a lot of books.’ He shrugged. The old hands are used to Australian ... (read more)