| Description |
1 online resource (149 pages) |
| Contents |
Street to street; acknowledgements; biographical note |
| Summary |
Street to Street is one of Brian Castro?s best books yet, a comic-tragic enactment of the anxieties of the writing life, in which the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan plays a major role. A legendary figure, with a commanding knowledge of classical and European poetry, Brennan wrote some of the most powerful poems in Australian literature. He died an impoverished alcoholic at the age of sixty-one. Castro?s double portrait of the poet and his biographer, the writer-academic Brendan Costa, plays on the disappointment, the guilt, the lack of recognition, which troubles those |
| Subject |
Brennan, Christopher John, 1870-1932 -- Fiction
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| SUBJECT |
Brennan, Christopher John, 1870-1932 fast |
| Subject |
Poets, Australian -- Fiction
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FICTION -- General.
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Poets, Australian
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction
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Biographical fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781922146250 |
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1920882952 |
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9781920882952 |
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1922146250 |
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9781922146250 |
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9781922146243 |
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1922146242 |
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