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'A Huge Subterranean World' : Unusual Consideration from a Biographer for a Subject's Privacy
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'A Huge Subterranean World' : Unusual Consideration from a Biographer for a Subject's Privacy
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'Late in 1998, the Times Literary Supplement, as was its wont, sent Randolph 'Mick' Stow a book for review. It was Xavier Herbert: A Biography (1998) by Francis de Groen, and Stow accepted the commission with enthusiasm. 'What a ghastly, embarrassing old pillock,' he wrote to his lifelong friend Bill Grono. 'Well, you'll soon read my opinion of him.' Stow's review tells a personal story of an encounter with Herbert at a 1963 supper party in Perth, and concludes that he liked Herbert even less by the end of the book than he did when he began it.' (13)
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'A Huge Subterranean World' : Unusual Consideration from a Biographer for a Subject's Privacy
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