Snakecharmers in Texas

Paperback edition of a volume first published by Jonathan Cape in 1988. It is a wide-ranging collection of essays and book reviews, both humorous and serious, published between 1980 and 1987. The first section, 'Australia's Sons', includes an essay on Barry Humphries and a review of Robert Hughes' 'The Fatal Shore'. Indexed. Australian-born author is a critic and novelist whose three-volume autobiography, beginning with 'Unreliable Memoirs', has been very successful.