Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time

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Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time is the first sole-authored critical survey of the respected Australian novelist's eleven novels. While these books are immediately accessible to the general reading public, they are manifestly works of high literary seriousness substantial, technically masterful and assured, intricately interconnected, and of great imaginative, intellectual and ethical weight.

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'Despite its many immediate rewards The Ruin of Time is a book that will have a long shelf-life. It is not (of course) the final word on Alex Miller, but due to its compendious nature it will become the go to source for future readers or critics looking to navigate his body of work. It is thoughtful, knowledgeable, studious, engaging and entertaining, and in writing it Dixon has further enhanced both his own reputation and that of his subject.'

-- Paul Genoni * Journal of Australian Studies *

'Dixons Alex Miller is a sustained and impressive appreciation of an Australian novelist who, although much decorated, and despite his considerable skills as an actor and public performer, remains a more elusive figure than his contemporaries Tom Keneally and Peter Carey.'

-- Peter Pierce * The Australian *

'In Dixon, Miller finds a reader of generosity, curiosity, intelligence and grace, one who in turn opens the work for others access and consideration. Alex Miller: The Ruin of Time enacts the lucid reading Celan hopes for, and offers its readers, in turn, illumination.'

-- Felicity Plunkett * Southerly *

Author Bio

Robert Dixon is professor of Australian literature at the University of Sydney and general editor of the Sydney Studies in Australian Literature series.