Louisa by Brian Matthews

Louisa

by Brian Matthews

McPhee Gribble Publishers, 1988, ISBN 0140108645, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, ex-library with endpapers and title page, stickers and such on back endpapers and spine and back cover, plastic protected covers (see photographs)

“From the voices of his subconscious an embattled author slowly shapes a portrait of Louisa Lawson – publisher, journalist, poet, inventor, women’s rights agitator, mother of Henry Lawson …
Brian Matthews’ Louisa moves with the pace of a thriller, building an unforgettable portrait and undermining all the certainties of biographical narrative.  The result is a tour de force, a dazzling array of voices, ideas, moments in time and place, which deftly draws the reader into the whole strange business of one person unravelling the life of another.”