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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Certain Style, A: Beatrice Davis, A Literary Life
Author: KENT JACQUELINE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 03/09/2018
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
Beatrice Davis, 1909-1992, was general editor at Angus and Robertson the main Australian publishing company from 1937 to 1973. There she discovered and published such writers as Thea Astley, Miles Franklin, Patricia Wrightson, Xavier Herbert and Hal Porter becoming a literary tastemaker in the process. A central figure in Australian literature ˜respected, feared, courted and berated.
Originally published to great acclaim in 2001, A Certain Style introduced this stylish and formidable woman to thousands of readers and told a history of books and publishing in twentieth-century Australia. This reissue has a new introduction and updates throughout as the author presents a compelling account of a contradictory woman and her times
ISBN: 9781742236025
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm