The Literary Larrikan

by Crouch, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781920694395
• ISBN10: 1920694390
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Uwa Pub

Summary

The colourful life story of T. A. G. Hungerford, the last grand old man of Australian literature. The author of four major novels, a short-story writer par excellence and a poet, Hungerford has also been a soldier and traveller. This biography also takes an in-depth look at Tom Hungerford the man, the archetypal bachelor of the post-war years. He represents the Australia of yesteryear, when the country still retained a certain innocence and his native Perth was just a big country town.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Photographs	xii
Maps	xiii
Acknowledgements	xiv
Preface	xvii
Introduction T. A. G. Hungerford the Author	1	(10)
The Brave Days of Old	11	(8)
Halcyon Youth	19	(19)
Tickety-boo	38	(10)
Apocalypse Now	48	(14)
The Dogs of War	62	(11)
The Jungle	73	(17)
Alarums and Excursions	90	(12)
Anticlimax	102	(17)
Reorientation	119	(18)
In His Element	137	(21)
The New World	158	(15)
The Back of Beyond	173	(13)
From Oriental Interlude to Premier's Voice	186	(10)
Living the Life	196	(16)
Epilogue	212	(17)
Appendix 1 A Measure of the Man	229	(4)
Appendix 2 T. A. G. Hungerford's Books, Short Stories and Poetry	233	(9)
Notes	242	(13)
Index	255