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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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updated 11 September 2000
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