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    612-822-4611

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Martin Boyd

Martin Boyd

Niall, Brenda

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ISBN10: 0522876994
ISBN13: 9780522876994
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: Nov 15 2024
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

The first biography of Martin à Beckett Boyd (1893-1972), Anglo-Australian novelist and member of Australia's best known family of artists.

Martin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by World War I. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life. Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, and an old family house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expatriates in Rome. In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before World War I, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.

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