Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2011
A reflective piece about the caustic, self-absorbed Autumn Laing in the nascent modernist artistic community of 1930s Melbourne (as told in the third-person narrative) and the contemporary Autumn in her old age (as told by her in the first-person). Mirroring the alleged real-life affair between Australian artists Sidney Nolan and Sunday Reed, Autumn’s current-day encounter with her former lover’s wife causes her to attempt reconciling her own acerbic narcissism with the repercussions of her actions over 50 years earlier. It is not a “light” read but it is a beautiful snapshot of Australian artists and landscapes in the 1930s.
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