Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay
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Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay: (A&R Classics)

Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay: (A&R Classics)


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Clean Straw for Nothing traces the journey of successful war correspondent and journalist David Meredith as he abandons his career to live in exile on a Greek island with his beautiful wife Cressida. Johnston focuses on the developing relationship between David and Cressida and David emerges as a complex and reflective character, unable to find the freedom and answers he craves. A Cartload of Clay brings David back to Australia. He rediscovers his deep affection for his native land after having been so long in exile. It is an affection however which encompasses the country's deep faults and failings as well as its virtues. Here he reviews his life, and finds it wanting. Unable to arrive at any conclusions, he philosophically accepts that the meaning of life is the journey, and is not a prize to be given at the end.

About the Author :
George Johnston started his career in journalism with the Melbourne Argus when he was just sixteen. After his work as a correspondent during World War II Johnston began to focus on literature when he moved to the Greek islands with his second wife Charmian Clift. It was the strength of his honesty about humanity and relationships that earned him his place in Australia’s literary canon. Johnston in 1970 after a long battle with tuberculosis, but his enduring myth and greatness lives on through two semi-autobiographical works for which he was awarded the Miles Franklin Award in 1964 for My Brother Jack and in 1969 for Clean Straw for Nothing.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780207197482
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
  • Height: 198 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 31 mm
  • Width: 142 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0207197482
  • Publisher Date: 02 May 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: A&R Classics
  • Weight: 406 gr


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