TY  - BOOK
AU  - Genoni,Paul
AU  - Dalziell,Tanya
TI  - Half the perfect world: writers, dreamers and drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964 
SN  - 9781925523096
AV  - PR9606.2 .G46 2018
U1  - 949.580922823/.914B 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Clayton, Victoria
PB  - Monash University Publishing
KW  - Clift, Charmian
KW  - Johnston, George,
KW  - Clift, Charmian,
KW  - Cohen, Leonard,
KW  - Johnston, George Henry,
KW  - Clift, Charmian.
KW  - Australians
KW  - Greeze
KW  - Hydra Island
KW  - Biography
KW  - Authors, Australian
KW  - fast
KW  - Greece
KW  - Artists
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Hydra Island (Greece)
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Australian
N2  - "Half the Perfect World tells the story of the post-war international artist community that formed on the Greek island of Hydra. Most famously, it included renowned singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and his partner Marianne Ihlen, as well as many other artists and writers including the Australian literary couple, Charmian Clift and George Johnston, who fostered this fabled colony. Drawing on many previously unseen letters, manuscripts and diaries, and richly illustrated by the eyewitness photographs of LIFE magazine photo-journalist James Burke, Half the Perfect World reveals the private lives and relationships of the Hydra expatriates. It charts the promise of a creative life that drew many of them to the island, and documents the fracturing of the community as it came under pressure from personal ambitions and wider social changes. For all the unrealised youthful ambitions, internal strife and personal tragedy that attends this story, the authors nonetheless find that the example of these writers, dreamers and drifters continues to resonate and inspire." -- Publisher's website
ER  -