- Published: 1 October 2015
- ISBN: 9780857989802
- Imprint: Random House Australia
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
Second Half First
- Published: 1 October 2015
- ISBN: 9780857989802
- Imprint: Random House Australia
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 384
Second Half First offers a diaphanous and nuanced vision of the layers of a life, and of life writing. Its magnificent collective portrait reveals Modjeska’s life as part of those it intersects with, including the women writers she lives with and reads ... [a] luminous and captivating work
Felicity Plunkett, Australian
Second Half First is a beautiful, sometimes profound, and always engaging memoir by a great writer.
Mark Rubbo, Readings Magazine
This enthralling memoir ... is a remarkable literary work ... Modjeska’s eloquent reckoning not only of her own history, but of her intellectual life, reaffirm[s] her as a lucid, formidable thinker ... Wise, vital and relayed in Modjeska’s restrained, sophisticated prose, [the book is] a major contribution to a literary lineage traceable to Virginia Woolf, one of Modjeska’s own heroes, herself a constant presence throughout this remarkable book.
Gerard Elsom, Books+Publishing
Colin Roderick Award
Longlisted • 2015 • Colin Roderick Award
ALS Gold Medal Award
Shortlisted • 2016 • ALS Gold Medal
Nita B Kibble Literary Awards
Shortlisted • 2016 • Kibble Literary Award
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
Shortlisted • 2016 • Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Non-fiction
Queensland Literary Awards
Shortlisted • 2016 • Queensland Literary Awards - Non-fiction Book Award
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
Shortlisted • 2016 • Victorian Premier's Literary Awards - Prize for Non-Fiction