Navel Gazing: Essays, Half-Truths, and Mystery Flights

by Peter Goldsworthy

Funny, wise, idiosyncratic and original, these occasional essays chart a course through the various genres of writing that Peter Goldsworthy has investigated- fiction, science fiction, poetry, opera and film. Spiced with often hilarious personal anecdotes and references to the wide-ranging reading of a self-confessed 'hick autodidact', Goldsworthy offers a book that is at once a writing manual for various literary disciplines, and a loose, extended...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140274553
• ISBN13: 9780140274554
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 264 Pages