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Paradise Garden : paintings, drawings and poems

by Sidney Nolan, Robert Melville

This volume represents the first critical survey of the award-winning Australian novelist's eleven novels, analysing the technical mastery, intellectual depth, and ethical weight of his literary works.

Accession 25478 ISBN — Publisher R Alistair McAlpine
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