Christina Stead - A Biography

Minerva Australia, Melbourne, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First Impression. Size: 8vo Octavo (standard book size). 646 pages. Text contains marks and notes on first few pages, in pencil. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. This book is available and will be shipped within two business days. All items are tracked and details are available on request.. "Christina Stead has the fullness of tragedy, with its glorious peaks and dismal abysses. It is a model of clarity. Ms. Rowley's shrewd selectivity and handling of anecdote makes the book compellingly readable. "Rowley's interpretation of the novels and their creator is, for the most part, thoroughly persuasive. Her tracing of what she calls 'Stead's shadow self' from her unhappy childhood through the crucible of her fiction to the final shambles of her later years gives the biography a vigorous and unnerving momentum, reminiscent of Stead's own fiction. Christina Stead is everything a literary biography should be." Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; ISBN: 1863303774. ISBN/EAN: 9781863303774. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5327. . 9781863303774