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Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States. Part memoir, part history lesson, part philosophical tract, Hughes uses his own experiences to examine the nature of art, war, sex, religion, writing and life itself. Piercing, razor-sharp, and above all, fearless, this is by far Hughes's most personal writing to date.

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Entertaining -- Geoff Dyer Mail on Sunday This is, as you'd expect, a hugely entertaining book -- Martin Gayford Sunday Telegraph Edgy and engrossing memoir -- Waldemar Januszczak Sunday Times Hughes...deftly intertwines personal and cultural history in this fiercely erudite memoir...it offers a fascinating examination of artistic patrimony and the formation of a critic New Yorker Bracingly candid... There isn't a phrase that doesn't reward immediate rereading New Statesman

Bracingly candid... There isn't a phrase that doesn't reward immediate rereading * New Statesman * Hughes...deftly intertwines personal and cultural history in this fiercely erudite memoir...it offers a fascinating examination of artistic patrimony and the formation of a critic * New Yorker * Edgy and engrossing memoir -- Waldemar Januszczak * Sunday Times * This is, as you'd expect, a hugely entertaining book -- Martin Gayford * Sunday Telegraph * Entertaining -- Geoff Dyer * Mail on Sunday *

Entertaining -- Geoff Dyer Mail on Sunday This is, as you'd expect, a hugely entertaining book -- Martin Gayford Sunday Telegraph Edgy and engrossing memoir -- Waldemar Januszczak The Times Hughes...deftly intertwines personal and cultural history in this fiercely erudite memoir...it offers a fascinating examination of artistic patrimony and the formation of a critic New Yorker Some fine tales are told...His style is a richly ornamented kind of plain speaking -- Tom Lubbock Evening Standard

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Robert Hughes, art critic of Time magazine and twice winner of the American College Art Association's F. J. Mather Award for distinguished criticism, is author of The Shock of the New, and of Heaven and Hell in Western Art. He is also author of the acclaimed Nothing if Not Critical, a work on Frank Auerbach; Barcelona, and Culture of Complaint, essays on the fraying of America. Robert Hughes died in August 2012.

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