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Poppy by Drusilla Modjeska
$10.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
In this award-winning book, Drusilla Modjeska sets out to collect the evidence of her mother's life. But when the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the thread of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and sang to her children, ...Show more
Second Half First - A Memoir by Drusilla Modjeska
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography
Beginning with the disastrous events of the night before her fortieth birthday, in Second Half First Drusilla Modjeska looks back on the experiences of the past thirty years that have shaped her writing, her reading and the way she has lived. From a childhood in England, and her parents' difficult marri ...Show more
Stravinsky's Lunch by Drusilla Modjeska
$25.00 NZD
Category: History & Theory | Reading Level: very good
A moving, deeply insightful study of two artists-both twentieth-century Australian women-who lived and worked in divergent realms Drusilla Modjeska's title derives from an anecdote about the composer who, while creating a piece of music, ordered his family to remain silent while taking a meal with him- ...Show more
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