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'Alistair Skelton' 'Alistair Skelton' i(A16783 works by)
Writing name for: Frank Kellaway
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1 2 y separately published work icon Bill's Break 'Alistair Skelton' , Prahran : Champion Books , 1983 Z509986 1983 single work novel 'Rational vision does not exist in the mind of Bill Wyatt. Not impressed by the expectations of his academic father and snobbish mother, he went his own way to become...an artist. He and his city-born wife moved to a 'utopian' farmlet at Ithaca...an experience of isolated frustration and hopelessness. While the well he built failed to draw water, his tomato crop died in the heat, his pet dog killed the geese, Bill began an affair with the local art teacher after an exhibition of his paintings at the Municipal Library.Then... (Backcover)
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