TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hewett,Dorothy
TI  - Wild card: an autobiography, 1923-1958 
SN  - 9781742584317
AV  - PR9619.3.H4 Z46 2012eb
U1  - 823/.914 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Crawley, Western Australia
PB  - UWA Publishing
KW  - Hewett, Dorothy.
KW  - Authors, Australian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - Écrivains australiens
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Femmes et littérature
KW  - Australie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes index
N2  - Republished for a new generation of readers, this extraordinary autobiography of one of Australia's most celebrated female writers, Dorothy Hewett, traces the personal and political metamorphoses of her first 35 years. After university life, several failed love affairs, an attempted suicide, and a major poetry prize, Dorothy Hewett joined the Australian Communist party in 1945. Four years later, she left her husband and moved to Redfern, Sydney with her lover, a boilermaker. Hers was a life of extremes - the pleasures and purgatories of a woman who has tackled everything placed in her path wit
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