Offcuts : from a legal literary life / Nicholas Hasluck.
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Nedlands, W.A. :
University of Western Australia Press,
1993.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Law: Oxford days. Devising legal fictions. Practising with Holmes à Court. The trial of the Clarke brothers. The antipodean Panoptique: penal colonies down under. House of mirrors. The saga of legal eagle
- 2. Literature: Getting published. Impudent friends. The past's deceitful dream. A sense of time and place--the untold story. Untitled prose piece VII. Encounters with Patrick White. The remains of excellence
- 3. Politics: The public figures defence. Inside the Australia Council. Gore Vidal's empire. Under the Uglich Bell. Deaths and entrances. The arts labyrinth
- 4. Places: Writing places. Cracker barrels and covered bridges. On top of old Smoky. Faulkner country. Farewell to the Widow Douglas.