The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends. — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So it is with a nation; to understand it you have to read its books — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
You can make initial contact with someone who does not speak your language with signs or smiles, but to communicate you need words. So… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
Australians are not given to applauding tragedy unless it is at a distance like Gallipoli or Cooper's Creek, and they prefer pure heroism to… — Geoffrey Dutton Copy Share Image
