Relatively Famous

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Averill, Roger ORCID: 0000-0003-1008-7165 (2018) Relatively Famous. Transit Lounge, Melbourne, Victoria.

Abstract

Summary: Michael and Majorie Madigan refuse to be interviewed by biographer Sinclair Hughes for his new book Inside the Lion's Den: The Literary Life of Gilbert Madigan. This is not surprising as Gilbert is Marjorie's ex- husband and Michael's mostly absent father. Relatively Famous, Gilbert Madigan is Australia's first Booker Prize winner, a feted and much lauded author that the U.K. and U.S. now likes to call their own. Michael cannot escape his father's life and work, and at times his own life seems swallowed by it. His father's success is a source of undeniable pleasure but also of great turmoil. How does one live in the shadow of a famous relative who we never seem to be able to live up to?

Item type Book
URI https://vuir.vu.edu.au/id/eprint/41328
ISBN 9780995409897
Subjects Historical > FOR Classification > 1904 Performing Arts and Creative Writing
Current > Division/Research > First Year College
Keywords Australian fiction, fame, family, Identity
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