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A review by galaheadh
My Brilliant Career & My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin
I read these two books fairly spaced apart because I read My Brilliant Career for a book club and decided not to read My Career Goes Bung until after we’d had our discussion so that my view of the first book wouldn’t be altered by the second.
I’m glad I made that decision because the second book definitely casts new and interesting light on the first – I highly recommend reading My Career Goes Bung if you read My Brilliant Career, but it was nice to have book club be just about the one book, not both.
They’re a fascinating pair of books for very many reasons: the author and setting, the style of the narrative, the political and feminist outlook, the approach to genre and autobiography – the sheer metafiction of it all.
And the CHAPTER TITLES, good lord. Worth the price of admission on their own.
I’m glad I made that decision because the second book definitely casts new and interesting light on the first – I highly recommend reading My Career Goes Bung if you read My Brilliant Career, but it was nice to have book club be just about the one book, not both.
They’re a fascinating pair of books for very many reasons: the author and setting, the style of the narrative, the political and feminist outlook, the approach to genre and autobiography – the sheer metafiction of it all.
And the CHAPTER TITLES, good lord. Worth the price of admission on their own.