The Young Desire It
Text Publishing, $29.99 pb, 368 pp, 9781922147509
Commentary
Mordant beauty
by Peter Craven •
The legend of Kenneth Mackenzie (1913–55) has always hovered around the corridors of Australian literature. From Western Australia, was he? Died young, didn’t he? Trouble with drink, wasn’t it? Or sexual identity, could it have been? They say he’s worth reading but nobody much has, have they?
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