The happiness glass /
But what did teenage girls in country towns want with Latin and French and art? What use would it be to them? The literary longings of a studious girl born into a working class family, hot afternoons in a dust-plain Wilcannia schoolhouse, the temptation to stay and the perils of breaking free, The H...
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| Language: | English |
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North Geelong, Victoria :
Spinifex Press,
2018.
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| Summary: | But what did teenage girls in country towns want with Latin and French and art? What use would it be to them? The literary longings of a studious girl born into a working class family, hot afternoons in a dust-plain Wilcannia schoolhouse, the temptation to stay and the perils of breaking free, The Happiness Glass reflects complex griefs in the life of Lily Brennan. Lily's story allows the author to navigate some of the difficulties of memoir, and out of its bittersweet blend of real, remembered and imagined life, the portrait of a writer gradually emerges. In fiction that forms around a core of memory, life writing that acknowledges the elusiveness of truth, Carol Lefevre has written a remarkable, risk-taking book that explores questions of homesickness, infertility, adoption and family estrangement, in Lily Brennan's life, and in her own. There is something about a girl reading, writing and showing a preference for solitude that provokes people. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 152 pages : portrait ; 20 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781925581638 1925581632 9781925581645 1925581640 9781925581669 1925581667 9781925581652 1925581659 |