![]() ![]() His is a meticulous collage of tiny crystalline worlds that were vanishing even as they were perceived. Yet none of this is essayed with any snobbery. He was born, he indicates, not only to a sort of lower middle-class Adelaide suburban narrowness, all rectitude and bad suits and ties worn even to garden, but Methodism to boot. These moments are like body blows and so is the whole book. And he also says of Garner that he did not realise someone who was schooled to feminism would feel such pain at separation. The man who was once married to Helen Garner says, very much in passing, that he admired the forthright individual way she spoke. ![]() The upshot is a book that exists as the tesserae of the temple of a life, not the structure. ![]()
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