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 Hughess most personal writing to date.
