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About Robert Hughes
See more books from this AuthorSome highlights: the merry mortars he launches against the Australian press, his stories about Catholic boarding school, his account of Florence’s disastrous 1966 flood, his flops as a writer (he couldn’t finish a book on da Vinci), his swift report about his courtship by Time.
| Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)And theres the popular historian Alan Moorehead, who became a kind of surrogate father figure to the young Mr. Hughes, and who encouraged him to leave Australia, warning him that were he to stay there, he ran the risk of becoming a bore, a village explainer. The most compelling and most elus...
Dec 01 2006 | Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)"Well, well, well, William Burroughs drawls on encountering Matt Dillon in Drugstore Cowboy. If it isnt bad Bobby Hughes. Things I Didnt Know is the story of how another Bobby Hughes or Robbie Huge, as Julian Schnabel nearly remembered him in his memoir made good.
Sep 24 2006 | Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes (Vintage, £10.99) Both Robert Hughes's fans and his detractors may be interested to know of the precise role that chance played in shaping his career.
Sep 22 2007 | Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes Harvill Secker £25, pp416 Robert Hughes begins his autobiography, unusually, by describing his death.
Oct 22 2006 | Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)Things I Didn't Know by Robert Hughes 395pp, Harvill Secker, £25 Robert Hughes goes to some lengths to present his career as an art critic as a series of happy accidents, but his book starts with an unhappy one: a car crash.
Dec 02 2006 | Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)While recovering from near-fatal physical injuries, Hughes was subject to vicious media attacks in Australia (where Rupert Murdoch has a Berlusconi-esque omnipresence in the news) on his way to a conviction for dangerous driving.
Dec 19 2006 | Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)Later in this book, Hughes cannot resist relating how Frank Packer (‘the gross and meat-fisted capitalist who owned Australian Consolidated Press’) calmed the anxieties of a new secretary he’d seduced by offering her a black aniseed jelly bean as an oral contraceptive, even though he admits that ...
| Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)Robert Hughes—a Time magazine art critic, biographer, documentary maker, historian, and author of The Shock of the New (1981), The Fatal Shore (1987), and Goya ( 4 of 5 Stars Mar/Apr 2004)—offers an untraditional perspective on his 60-something years.
Aug 21 2007 | Read Full Review of Things I Didn't Know (Vintage)An aggregated and normalized score based on 13 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes