The Boy Adeodatus

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¦jL/ernard Smith's celebrated and award-winning The Boy Adeodatus : The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bostard seems to inaugurate a new style of Australian autobiography - a kind of objective impressionism, which combines the judicious detachment that y/e have come to expect from one of Australia's great historians, and an almost Proustîan év^afron of the minutiae, the pathos,-the sensuplity, of ordinary^^xperierfce. Written in the third person anci ij^oble for its portraits of the two ^^^ extraordinary women who nurti/red him^ Smith's^ is a memorolsfte account of Rowing up in a Sydney suburb jwound the First Woéjtd War, the changing values of his yowííí^ and what it was like to.be an emergent artist, socialist and înteHecfual during the 1920» and , 1930s. It establishes him as one of the finest Australian qutobiograpKers ^ exoîic as Hal Porter, dauntless as Patrick White.
'One of Smith's best books is his autobiography J/>e Boy A^éudafm'. Peter Fuller, r/>e/ftc/epeno/e(jAMQ/i//>/x... Tovább

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¦jL/ernard Smith's celebrated and award-winning The Boy Adeodatus : The Portrait of a Lucky Young Bostard seems to inaugurate a new style of Australian autobiography - a kind of objective impressionism, which combines the judicious detachment that y/e have come to expect from one of Australia's great historians, and an almost Proustîan év^afron of the minutiae, the pathos,-the sensuplity, of ordinary^^xperierfce. Written in the third person anci ij^oble for its portraits of the two ^^^ extraordinary women who nurti/red him^ Smith's^ is a memorolsfte account of Rowing up in a Sydney suburb jwound the First Woéjtd War, the changing values of his yowííí^ and what it was like to.be an emergent artist, socialist and înteHecfual during the 1920» and , 1930s. It establishes him as one of the finest Australian qutobiograpKers ^ exoîic as Hal Porter, dauntless as Patrick White.
'One of Smith's best books is his autobiography J/>e Boy A^éudafm'. Peter Fuller, r/>e/ftc/epeno/e(jAMQ/i//>/x
'It is this assured sense c^ belonging to the same mental world as, St Augustine that makas TeirBoy Adeodatus^ in nfiy experience
â unique book.'jg Edmuoé Cómpion, The Bulletin ^ '
'Smith's achievemént'íí^superioft.to thaf of almost every ^Australian ^
Humphrey McQufsn^ The Sydney Morning He^ld
TAe floy Adeoc/cfft/s is otó of the finest of all our autobiogrofihies. I have no doubt that it is made of the kind of timber ^hcrt will last.' , . Ghi-ts Wallace-Crabbe,/4w/ra//an flooit ifôv/ôw
The Boy Adeodatus was awarded the National Book Council's Prize for 1984, and subsequently won the Vidorioflrffemler's Prize ¦> for Non-Fiction and the Royal Blind Sodety talking Book of
the Year Award. Vissza