Death on the record
Posted in Reflections on Jul 23rd, 2007 2 Comments »
The fortunes of Richard Mahony, by Henry Handel Richardson, is on my list of Big Books I Must Read One Day. However, its opening section, set on the Ballarat goldields of the 1850s, is compelling but scary on a number of levels, and I’ve never got past it. More recently it has jogged along in […]