AustLit

'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)