Martin Boyd by Brenda Niall - ISBN: 9780522876994
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War shattered his world; could writing rebuild a home within?

Martin Boyd

A Life

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    1 pages

  • Release Date

    15 June 2004

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Summary

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 vill…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522876994
ISBN-10:0522876994
Author:Brenda Niall
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:1
Release Date:15 June 2004
Weight:476g
Dimensions:235mm x 151mm x 15mm
About The Author

Brenda Niall

Brenda Niall is one of Australia’s best-known writers and the author of four award-winning biographies. She has an AO for services to Australian literature, and an honorary D.Litt. from Monash as well as degrees from the University of Melbourne, the Australian National University and Monash University. As Reader in English at Monash University, she gave courses on Australian literature, American literature, biography and autobiography. She has held visiting fellowships at the University of Michigan, Yale University and the Australian National University; and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. She now writes full-time, and is a frequent reviewer for the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Book Review.

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