PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
"“a highly informed, astute study of one of the giants of world literature.” -- Steven Carroll * Sydney Morning Herald * ‘Morrison’s book further develops an understanding of the American years and of Stead’s profound engagement with the nation in a critical period of history.’ -- Anne Pender * Australian Book Review * 'Christina Stead and the Matter of America is a book that needed to be written. It will make you want to read Stead’s American novels – whether again, or for the first time. It is immensely readable, packed with juicy passages and incisive observations, responding to the energy and fearsome intellect of Stead’s work.' -- Dr Brigid Rooney * mETAphor * ""Morrison argues that Stead saw her Australian-ness itself as her licence to write about the world. Australia's being an island continent gave Australians a mercurial transnationalism: Stead's colonial identity was therefore a central ideological motivation in her US-set fictional endeavours."" -- Madeleine Gray * Times Literary Supplement *"
