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Article: Once an Australian: Journeys with Barry Humphries, Clive James, Germaine Greer and Robert Hughes.
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- January 1, 1998
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by Ian Britain;
Oxford University Press, 1997, $39.95.
Literary Links: Celebrating the Literary
Relationship between Australia and
Britain, by Roslyn Russell;
Allen & Unwin, 1997,$29.95.
In his essay on Robert Hughes, "The Nostalgia of the Critic", Ian Britain quotes from Cyril Connolly's The Unquiet Grave (a book of which Hughes claims that if he hadn't read it, he never "would have come up with the courage to leave Australia"):