On Kate Jennings / Erik Jensen.
Publication details: Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty Ltd, 2017.Description: 104 pages ; 19 cmISBN:- 9781863959834
- Eric Jensen on Kate Jennings
- Writers on writers
- Jennings, Kate, 1948-2021 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Jennings, Kate, 1948-2021
- Australian literature -- History and criticism
- Authors, Australian
- Expatriate authors
- Authors -- Australia -- Biography
- Women authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography
- Women authors, Australian -- Biography
- Authors, Australian -- United States -- Biography
- Expatriate authors -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- Australian
- 823.914 23
- 823.91094 23
- PR9619.3.J44 Z54 2017
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 823.914 JEN | Available | 071526 |
Published in association with The University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.
Award-winning writer Erik Jensen plunges the reader into the world of acclaimed novelist, poet and pioneering feminist Kate Jennings. Weaving in his interviews with Jennings in New York, he shows how poetry, politics and family were transmuted into her first novel, Snake a work of art that depicts rural Australia in a funny, cutting and unforgettable way. This is a biography of a book and the life that made it.In the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative, crisp and written from a practitioner?s perspective, the series starts a fresh conversation between past and present, and writer and reader. It sheds light on the craft of writing, and introduces some intriguing and talented authors and their work.