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Colin Colahan

A Portrait

By: Garry Kinnane,Colin Colahan

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Colin Colahan

A Portrait

By: Garry Kinnane,Colin Colahan

Colin Colahan was an Australian painter of outstanding ability and reputation who from the 1920s to the 1970s was remarkably productive. Colahan was one of the more brilliant pupils of the painter Max Meldrum. Identification with the unfashionable 'Meldrumites' is one explanation for Colahan's disappearance from the public gaze. The other has murkier origins in the still unsolved murder of his girlfriend, Mollie Dean, in 1930. There was nothing of substance to link Colahan to the brutal murder, but fevered public speculation cast a depressing shadow for many years and helped propel him to Europe in 1935. There he stayed for the rest of his long life. The story of Colahan's personal life is tantalising in itselfandmdash;three marriages, five children, numerous lovers, beautiful houses in England and Italy, portrait painter of the rich and famous. It was an urbane life. He was a witty, charming, talented man. This intimate, engaging portrait is indeed most welcome, and will restore Colahan's life and work to its rightful place in the history of Australian art.

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Melbourne University Publish

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0522847102

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9780522847109

Shadowed Days

Fragments of a Melbourne Boyhood

By: Garry Kinnane

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Shadowed Days

Fragments of a Melbourne Boyhood

By: Garry Kinnane

Two nights later our whole life is changed. I am reading a comic in bed, when from way down the hall I hear my mother yell, 'Frank! Frank!' There is something in her voice that I have never heard before - not just panic, which is the first thing that strikes me, but a deeper note of fear...' GARRY KINNANE'S haunting evocation of his boyhood in Melbourne in the 40s and 50s brings to life a struggling family. Frank and Thelma and their two boys, Garry and Ray, are always on the move - from Richmond to Mount Macedon, to North Melbourne, among the homeless in 'Larundel', and finally to an uneasy life in Valentine Street.

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0980298369

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9780980298369

Time of Arrival

A Memoir

By: Garry Kinnane

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Time of Arrival

A Memoir

By: Garry Kinnane

Greece had changed me ... now I had a greater sense of what was possible, what potential the world offered to those willing to plunge in ... the future beginning to issue its demand. Time to move, to a new place and a new challenge. I had no idea what it might be, or where I might find it, but we thought, Jo and I, that England would be as good a place to start as any ... In 'Time of Arrival' Garry Kinnane tells of a decade of living abroad - Greece, a war-affected Europe, London in the 60s and 70s, his involvement in the student movement, a scholarship to Oxford. His search for direction is aided by friends and the faith of his wife Jo, through the struggle to raise a family in times of hardship, and the ultimate desire to return home to Australia. It is a tale of journey and arrival - at a place, an achievement, a self-discovery. This is the final volume of a trilogy that began with childhood in 'Shadowed Days', and continued with youth in 'Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Grid'. Garry Kinnane is the author of 'George Johnston: A Biography' (winner of The Age Book-of-the-Year 1986) and 'Colin Colahan: A Portrait'. His memoir 'Shadowed Days' was shortlisted for the 2009 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards for non-fiction.

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Clouds of Magellan Pub.

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1925282171

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9781925282177

George Johnston

By: Garry Kinnane

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George Johnston

By: Garry Kinnane

The life of George Johnston, author of the best-selling My Brother Jack, was in many ways symbolic of Australian post-war cultural life. He was a complex character, dogged by feelings of mediocrity, betrayal and failure that he ultimately transformed though the writing of his brilliant trilogy My Brother Jack, Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay. In this award-winning biography, Garry Kinnane examines the process by which Johnston selected people, places and events for this creative transformation. In doing so, he reveals the reality that lay behind the glamorous outer facade of the life of Johnston and his wife, the writer Charmian Clift.

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330

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522865496

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9780522865493

Colin Colahan

A Portrait

By: Garry Kinnane,Colin Colahan

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A Portrait

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Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Grid

By: Garry Kinnane

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Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Grid

By: Garry Kinnane

part two of the Shadowed Days Mid-50s to mid-60s Melbourne—a Wowserland of 6 o'clock closing, censorship, endless suburbia …... we could settle down. But that was the farthest thing from our minds. We didn’t want security, we wanted adventure, risk, experience, we wanted to see and grasp the world ... In Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Grid, Garry Kinnane continues the story, begun in Shadowed Days, of a young man looking for his direction in life. Having left school early, Garry finds himself at twenty-one in danger of working forever as an insurance clerk in the city. But gradually he finds an escape route—through night classes in literature, the folk-revival, The Push, the attractions of a Bohemian life …GARRY KINNANE is the author of George Johnston: A Biography (winner of The Age Book of the Year 1986), and Colin Colahan: A Portrait. His memoir Shadowed Days was shortlisted in the 2009 Queensland Premiers Literary Awards for non-fiction. About the AuthorGarry Kinnane was raised in a working class family in Melbourne during the1940s and 50s, worked at a variety of jobs in his teens, and gained recognition as a folk musician in the early1960s. In 1964 he married and travelled abroad, living first in Greece, then in England for ten years. There he undertook a degree in literary studies at the University of Warwick, from where he won a postgraduate scholarship to the University of Oxford. He returned to teach literary studies at Monash, the University of Ballarat and Melbourne University, from where he retired in 2004. Garry is currently writing a sequence of memoirs, the first of which, Shadowed Days; Fragments of a Melbourne Boyhood was released in 2008.Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Grid is the second volume, and a third is planned. Garry is also writing fiction, and teaching a U3A literature class in Geelong, where he now lives with his wife Jo.*Reviews of Shadowed Days:‘Shadowed Days glows with humanity, with an understanding and wisdom born of privation and endurance.’ —Tom Petsinis, author of The French Mathematician ‘A beautifully written evocation of a childhood during the post-war years in Victoria ... Shadowed Days excels at pinning down a certain time and place.’ —The Age

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0987403710

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9780987403711

Struck by Lightning

The Story of Garry Lynch

By: Gina Lennox

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The Story of Garry Lynch

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Story of the father of Anita Cobby who was murdered in 1986, member of the Serious Offenders Review Council and founder of a Homicide Victims' Support group.

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1864480793

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