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Self Portraits

David Foster

David Foster has selected a diverse range of 15 writers who speak of their life and of their writing.

Reviews:

They [the selected authors interviewed] range from highbrow to lowbrow, to left to right of the political spectrum, inhabiting variously Yarralumla and Bathurst Jail. They are all extraordinary characters.

Sun Herald, June 16, 1991

Foster’s biographical and critical remarks are not irreverent; they are pithy, insightful, provocative and witty, and in providing us with the perfect ‘entrée’, stimulates in us a real appetite to read what follows.

Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday June 29, 1991

Information on author:

David Foster was born in Katoomba in 1944. He trained as a scientist at Sydney University, the Australian National University and the University of Pennsylvania. Since renouncing a promising career in science he has written twelve works of fiction and has been the recipient of a series of Literature Board grants. His books include The Pure Land (which received the Age Book of the Year Award, 1974), Moonlite (winner of the National Book Council, Banjo Award for Australian Literature, 1981), Testostero (1987) and Mates of Mars (1991).

He has lived in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales for the past fifteen years with his wife and children.

ISBN 0 642 10513 8
1991, pb, B5, 160 pp, b&w illus.

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