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One hot night last spring, after waiting fruitlessly for a call
from my then lover, with whom I had quarrelled the same afternoon,
and finding one of my black moods on me, I flung out of my lonely
room on the ninth floor (unlucky number) in a hotel in lower Fifth
Avenue and rushed into the streets of the Village, feeling bad.
Letty Fox is hunting for a husband. Her picaresque adventures are
brilliantly described in this imaginative portrayal of a woman who
might have been independent, but chose otherwise.
Superbly evoking life in Sydney and London in the 1930s, For Love
Alone is the story of the intelligent and determined Teresa
Hawkins, who believes in passionate love and yearns to experience
it. She focuses her energy on Jonathan Crow, an unlikeable and
arrogant man whom she follows to London after four long years of
working in a factory and living at home with her loveless family.
Reunited with Crow in London, she begins to realise that perhaps he
is not as worthy of her affections as originally thought.
'I am not a born writer, but I must say that when I have actually
launched myself I get the profoundest and most passionate
satisfaction from writing.'-Christina Stead A Web of Friendship is
a collection of Christina Stead's intimate correspondence with
influential literary figures such as Stanley Burnshaw, Ettore
Rella, Nettie Palmer, Clem Christesen, Elizabeth Harrower and A.D.
Hope. These letters span the life of one of Australia's most
illustrious writers, offering a rare insight into the relationships
that influenced and sustained her work. They reveal Stead's
reflections on the art of literature, the development of her
political thought, and the significance of a handful of friendships
that would endure throughout her life and career. The letters cover
Stead's arrival in England in 1928, as well as her time abroad in
Europe and the United States. They also detail her marriage to
William Blake, their life in England where they settled in 1953, as
well as her brief return to Australia and her final years in
England following Blake's death.
Introduction by Michelle de Kretser Cotters' England follows the
lives of Nellie Cook, sister Peggy Cotter and brother Tom. Set in
post-war England, it is a study of politics and betrayal in
Nellie's professional and personal life. It is a story of smothered
aspirations and dashed hopes, as class politics trap the Cotters
and stifle their attempts to break free from the boundaries of the
working- and middle-classes. The book is also an exploration of
love and sexuality. An undercurrent of incestuous flirtation and a
lesbian affair add further strain to Nellie's relationships with
family and friends, driving one of them to suicide. By the renowned
author of The Man Who Loved Children, this is the first Stead work
to be set wholly in England. It weaves a strange and compelling
story that explores the limits of class, politics, lust and
passion.
With an Introduction by Randall Jarrell. Sam and Henny Pollit have too many children, too little money, and too much loathing for each other. As Sam uses the children's adoration to feed his own voracious ego, Henny watches in bleak despair, knowing the bitter reality that lies just below his mad visions. A chilling novel of family life, the relations between parents and children, husbands and wives, The Man Who Loved Children, is acknowledged as a contemporary classic.
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