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A Difficult Young Man

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Langton Quartet, Book Two

Martin Boyd

  • awardWinner, Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, 1956
  • Introduction by Sonya Hartnett

    Nearly everyone between the ages of eighteen and thirty turns against his family and wants to escape from it. When he is sixty he wants to creep back to the nursery fireside, but it is no longer there.

    Handsome, proud, reprehensible, misunderstood. Dominic Langton is the dark heart of A Difficult Young Man. His brother Guy can scarcely understand where he fits into the pattern of things or what he might do next. Martin Boyd’s much loved novel is an elegant, witty and compelling family tale about the contradictions of growing up.

    Martin Boyd
    About the Author

    Martin a’ Beckett Boyd was born in Switzerland in 1893 into a famous family. His brothers Merric and Penleigh were to become artists, too. Merric’s son Arthur was to become a famous painter, and Penleigh’s son Robin became an architect and the author of The Australian Ugliness.

    After leaving school Martin Boyd enrolled in a seminary, but he...

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    Extent:
    352pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    26 April 2012
    First published:
    1955
    Region:
    VIC
    ISBN:
    9781921922121
    AU Price:
    $0.00
    NZ Price:
    $15.99
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