Publication

2010 - Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic, Victoria

Language

English

Word Count

65,000 words, Guess

Page Count

260 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780522857474
  • ISBN-100522857477
  • Library of Congress Control Number2010497622
  • OCLC Control Number506020660
  • Better World Books9780522857474
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Classifications

  • DDC920.72
  • LCCPR9619.3.F517 Z46 2010

Description

"How does a daughter tell the story of her father? Sheila Fitzpatrick was taught from an early age to question authority. She learnt it from her father, the journalist and radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick. But very soon, she began to turn her questioning gaze on him. Teasing apart the many layers of memory, Fitzpatrick reveals a complex portrait of an Australian family against a Cold War backdrop. As her relationship with her father fades from girlhood adoration to adolescent scepticism, she flees Melbourne for Oxford to start a new life. But it's not so easy to escape being her father's daughter. My Father's Daughter is a vivid evocation of an Australian childhood; a personal memoir told with the piercing insight of a historian." -- from publisher's website.

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Sheila FitzpatrickBrian Fitzpatrick (1905-1965)

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