TY - BOOK ID - 80831080 TI - Wild card : an autobiography, 1923-1958 AU - Hewett, Dorothy AU - Lilley, Merv PY - 2012 SN - 9781742584317 1742584314 9781742583952 1742583954 PB - Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, DB - UniCat KW - Authors, Australian KW - Hewett, Dorothy. KW - Lilley, Dorothy KW - יואיט, דורותי UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80831080 AB - Republished for a new generation of readers, this extraordinary autobiography of one of Australia's most celebrated female writers, Dorothy Hewett, traces the personal and political metamorphoses of her first 35 years. After university life, several failed love affairs, an attempted suicide, and a major poetry prize, Dorothy Hewett joined the Australian Communist party in 1945. Four years later, she left her husband and moved to Redfern, Sydney with her lover, a boilermaker. Hers was a life of extremes - the pleasures and purgatories of a woman who has tackled everything placed in her path wit ER -