Brian Castro's Fiction: The Seductive Play of Language

by Bernadette Brennan

Brian Castro is one of the most innovative and challenging novelists writing in English today. By virtue of his childhood migration from Hong Kong to Australia, he is an Australian writer, but he writes from the margins of what might be termed mainstream Australian literature. In an Australian context, Castro has been linked with Patrick White because like White he is an intellectual, deeply ironic, modernist writer. His writing can also be comfortably...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604975644
• ISBN13: 9781604975642
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Cambria Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"