Autobiographical essays written by Hughes describing his life growing up in the Hunter valley, in a household dominated by memories of Ukraine where his family were forced to leave during the Second world war. He charts the effect their stories had on him as a child, and teh way they shaped his imagination, and determined his idea of himself, as a student in Newcastle, and then as the holder of a prestigious scholarship at Cambridge University. His inheritance almost undoes him as in Cambridge he encounters not the romantic idea of Europe he had imagined, but a provincialism more pronounced than that he had left behind in Australia.

Pages slightly browned

Published: 2004

No. pages: 207

ISBN: 9781920882044

Condition: VERY GOOD - softcover - 220g