THESE MEMOIRS/REFLECTIONS/REMINISCENCES OF VINCENT BUCKLEY SPAN AN EXTRAORDINARY RANGE OF INTERESTS AND ACTIVITY OFONE OF AUSTRALIA'S LEADING INTELLECTUALS OF THE PAST 25 YEARS. BUCKLEY IS APOET AND MAJOR LITERARY CRITIC. MORE THAN THAT, THOUGH HE HAS BEEN A CENTRAL FIGURE IN MAJOR POLITICAL AND UNIVERSITY CONTROVERSIES. HE RECOUNTS HIS EARLY IRISH CATHOLIC AUSTRALIAN BOYHOOD; STUDENT LIFE AT MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY; AND LATER HIS ROLE AS A TEACHER AND A MAN AT THE CENTRE OF THE DEBATES ON THE 50S AND 60S. ON THE WAY HEDRAWS MARVELLOUS PICTURES OF LEADING AUSTRALIANS LIKE ARCHBISHOP MANNIX,BOB SANTAMARIA, JAMES MCCAULEY, A.D. HOPE, AND DOUGLAS STEWART.
- ISBN10 0140056955
- ISBN13 9780140056952
- Publish Date 29 September 1983
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 328
- Language English