Christina Stead: A Life of Letters by Chris Williams

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Right tail front cover corner is now reinforced with book tape.

From unpublished letters, memoirs, innumerable interviews with Stead's family and other people who knew Stead, and from the novels and stories Stead wrote, Chris Williams has written the first full biography of Christina Stead.

William's research is formidable, and her empathy with Stead and her work introduces us to the full complexity of an extraordinarily gifted writer who was widely read and finally celebrated in the last years of her life in Australia. (back cover)