Republished with two brand new pieces, CROSSING THE GAP is a fascinating insight into a major Australian novelists development. This collection of short works employs the memoir as a springboard, presenting us with reflections on literature and an analysis of Australias changing place in the world over the authors lifetime - a lifetime stretching from the British Empire of his childhood to the post-colonial present. CROSSING THE GAP, the title piece of the collection, has a particular topical interest, dealing as it does with the shift from Empire to a new Asia-Pacific consciousness. Kochs recollection take us through several continents and an unusual range of topics, from his native island of Tasmania to London in the 1950s; from newly independent India to Sukarnos Indonesia; from California in the 1960s, with Ken Kesey and Larry McMurtry, to the China of Chairman Mao in the 1980s. It is a rich and exciting mixture, charting a novelists growth and the influences which have shaped him.

ISBN: 9780732296544
Title: Crossing the Gap
Author: KOCH CHRISTOPHER
Format: Paperback
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