{"product_id":"9780522876994","title":"Martin Boyd","description":"Author: Brenda Niall\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780522876994\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Melbourne University Publishing\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 15 Jun 2004\u003cbr\u003ePages: \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Boyd was one of the generation whose lives were changed by World War I. He served in a British regiment, survived the trenches in 1916-17 and joined the Royal Flying Corps. The pacifist beliefs which emerged from that war experience are central to his fiction, as they were to his life. Boyd's was a complex personality: witty, generous, sociable yet deeply reserved. He looked for his 'home of the spirit' in many places: an Anglican monastery, London's West End clubland, a Cambridge village, and an old famly house in Harkaway, Victoria, and among English expatriates in Rome. In a fine study of a man and his work, Brenda Niall re-creates the Melbourne in which Boyd grew up, just before World War I, and traces his development as a writer during his restless expatriate years.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47322115342494,"sku":"HPC-9780522876994","price":54.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780522876994.jpg?v=1780446639","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780522876994","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}