'A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man follows the author’s despair and euphoria as he journeys to the heart of the continent with his partner, their unborn child and his best friend. Together they drive from their home in Melbourne to a hut on the edge of Alice Springs where they encounter a new vision of Australia, their lives, and their futures.' (Publication summary)
'The cultural historian and essayist Maria Tumarkin once described an essay as “a dramatisation of a writer’s mind at work”. Ender Başkan’s A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man, though a novel, takes this dictum as its primary motivating force.'(Introduction)
'The cultural historian and essayist Maria Tumarkin once described an essay as “a dramatisation of a writer’s mind at work”. Ender Başkan’s A Portrait of Alice as a Young Man, though a novel, takes this dictum as its primary motivating force.'(Introduction)
