Hard Joy [electronic resource] : : Life and Writing

Susan Varga2022

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Summary

This compelling memoir of Susan Varga’s life across seven decades circles between Australia and Europe, activism and seclusion, everyday life and the writing life. She was born into war-torn Budapest, her family escaping loss and trauma to make a new life in Sydney. But Susan makes another escape, from the narrow confines of suburbia into the arms of the exciting and contradictory world of the Sydney Push. As a young woman she lives in London, Paris, Bendigo and Holland, before returning to Sydney, keen to take part in Gough Whitlam’s reformist agenda, in a powerful time of change. When she finally commits to the demands and joys of writing, and to a surprising love, her life assumes a new harmony. Fate then intervenes to throw up major challenges, testing her will to re-find the hard joys of life. In the tradition of her acclaimed first memoir, Heddy and Me, Hard Joy is an intimate, warm and incisive portrait of our times.