Dawn: One Hell of a Life
Hodder, $45hb, 420pp, 0 7336 1342 X
Biography
The Book of Dawn
by Craig Sherborne •
Dawn Fraser had a hundred or so pages of fair prose in her and she put them in this book, her autobiography. The trouble is that the book is 400 pages long. But that’s not a bad result. If a David Malouf or Helen Garner lined up for an Olympic swimming final, you’d expect them to sink.
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