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'When her father died in 1983, Germaine Greer realized how little she knew about him. What had happened during World War II to make this charming but distant man draw a “curtain of silence” around himself? Why had he never spoken of his family? Why had he never shown her the love she craved? In this deeply moving book, Greer tells of the impassioned search she made for the truth about her father—a search that led her to a new understanding of herself as well.
'Her quest lasted three years and took her from England to Australia to Tasmania, India, and Malta; through scores of genealogical, civil, and military archives; and into the memories of the men and women who may—or may not—have known Reg Greer.
'Yet the heart of Greer’s narrative is her own emotional journey, as the startling facts behind the façade her father had constructed force her painfully to examine her own notions of truth and loyalty, family and obligation.'
'Her quest lasted three years and took her from England to Australia to Tasmania, India, and Malta; through scores of genealogical, civil, and military archives; and into the memories of the men and women who may—or may not—have known Reg Greer.
'Yet the heart of Greer’s narrative is her own emotional journey, as the startling facts behind the façade her father had constructed force her painfully to examine her own notions of truth and loyalty, family and obligation.'
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Works about this Work
- y Bureau of Missing Persons : Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2011 Z1878464 2011 multi chapter work criticism Includes a section '"Love Is No Detective": Germaine Greer's Guilty Hunt'.
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Two Hands Round Nothing
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 1989 single work autobiography - y Greer : Untamed Shrew Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1997 Z1226190 1997 single work biography
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Second Thoughts
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 19 October 1997; (p. 13)
— Review of Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 1989 single work autobiography -
They Did it Their Way
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian , 5 January 1996; (p. 10)
— Review of Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 1989 single work autobiography
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A Sensitive and Honest Reflection
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 22 April 1989; (p. 7)
— Review of Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 1989 single work autobiography -
Daddy's Girl: Germaine Greer Goes in Search of Her Roots
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 8 April. 1989; (p. 17 and 19)
— Review of Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 1989 single work autobiography -
Demolishing the Myths of Daddy
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 15 April 1989; (p. 12)
— Review of Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 1989 single work autobiography -
Desperately Seeking Daddy
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: 24 Hours , September 1989; (p. 33)
— Review of Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 1989 single work autobiography -
Father Image
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Books in Canada , August-September 1989; (p. 33)
— Review of Daddy, We Hardly Knew You 1989 single work autobiography - y Greer : Untamed Shrew Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 1997 Z1226190 1997 single work biography
- y Bureau of Missing Persons : Writing the Secret Lives of Fathers Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 2011 Z1878464 2011 multi chapter work criticism Includes a section '"Love Is No Detective": Germaine Greer's Guilty Hunt'.
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Germaine Greer's Dirty Diggings
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Scripsi , vol. 6 no. 1 1990; (p. 179-185) -
The Importance of Being Greer
John MacGregor
(interviewer),
1989
single work
interview
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 110 1989; (p. 16-20) -
Charades and Censors
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Island Magazine , Spring no. 40 1989; (p. 20-26)
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Subjects:
- Urban,
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cIndia,cSouth Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- Tasmania,
- Adelaide, South Australia,
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cSouth Africa,cSouthern Africa, Africa,
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cItaly,cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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cAustralia,c
- 1900-1999
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