A Difficult Young Man Text Classics

Author: Martin Boyd

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  • : $12.99 AUD
  • : 9781921922121
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.243
  • : February 2012
  • : 198mm X 125mm
  • : 12.95
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  • : Martin Boyd
  • : Text Classics
  • : Paperback
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Barcode 9781921922121
9781921922121

Description

Handsome, proud, reprehensible, misunderstood. Dominic Langton is the dark heart of A Difficult Young Man. His brother Guy can scarcely understand where he fits into the pattern of things or what he might do next. Martin Boyd's much loved novel is an elegant, witty and compelling family tale about the contradictions of growing up.

Author description

Martin Boyd's first novel, Love Gods, was published in 1925. Three years later The Montforts appeared, under the pseudonym Martin Mills. Following the international success of Lucinda Brayford in 1946 Boyd decided to return to Australia where he wanted to restore his grandfather's house, but by 1951 he was back in London. In the coming decade he was to write the Langton Quartet: The Cardboard Crown, A Difficult Young Man, Outbreak of Love, When Blackbirds Sing. In 1957 he went to Rome, where he lived and continued to write until his death in 1972.