Dimensions
160 x 242 x 28mm
This is the definitive political biography of one of Australia's most celebrated and controversial writers.
Born in 1917 in rural Victoria, Frank Hardy joined the Communist Party of Australia as a young adult and, after a stint in the army, began his writing career as a journalist. His first, secretly published novel, Power Without Glory, was the subject of an infamous criminal libel case that combined art and politics in post-war Australian culture. Hardy continued writing until shortly before his death in 1994, continually challenging the social and political issues at the heart of Australian society.
Jenny Hocking's book includes material from interviews with surviving Hardy and Wren family members and never-before-published archival documents that shed new light on one of the most important Australian writers of the twentieth century.
