George Johnston

Product Description


The life of George Johnston, author of the best-selling My Brother Jack, was in many ways symbolic of Australian post-war cultural life. He was a complex character, dogged by feelings of mediocrity, betrayal and failure that he ultimately transformed though the writing of his brilliant trilogy. In this award-winning biography, Garry Kinnane examines the process by which Johnston selected people, places and events for this creative transformation. In doing so, he reveals the reality that lay behind the glamorous outer facade of the life of Johnston and his wife, the writer Charmian Clift.


Review


'David Meredith is his alter ego, and his brooding, nostalgic, isolated, self-pitying, courageous, moralising and perceptive nature is a direct reflection of the disintegrated environment that produced him' --
Garry Kinnane


From the Publisher


The Age Non-fiction Book of the Year (1986)


About the Author


After many years travelling, working and studying in Europe, Kinnane is now a senior lecturer in the English Department of the University of Melbourne. His latest book, Colin Colahan: A Portrait is to be published in September 1996.