Street to street
By: Brian Castro
Edition: EasyRead large print ed.
Publisher: Read How You Want/Accessible
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sydney]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9781459649194
Subjects: Fiction; Large type books; Australian Poets; Interpersonal relations; Australian fiction; Livres en gros caractères; Roman australien; Large print books
Description: Brian Castro takes up the novella, the form favoured by David Malouf and Helen Garner, in his new work of fiction, based on the life of the early twentieth-century Sydney poet Christopher Brennan. Brennan wrote some of the most powerful and ambitious poems in Australian poetry; he was a formidable literary figure who corresponded with Mallarm and wrote on French poetry. He died an impoverished alcoholic. Castros portrait of Brennan, seen through the eyes of his would-be biographer Brendan Costa, explores the fear of failure which haunts those who live by the imagination the fear of not achieving their own high ideals, and of disappointing their families and those who depend them. The story is told with the wit and energy that is the hallmark of Castros writing.
Notes: Set in 16 pt. Verdana.

ISBN 9781920882952 (pbk.) on t.p. verso is for Giramondo 2012 ed.