Diamond Cuts

An affectionate memoir of Jim McClelland

by Gillian Appleton

Macmillan, 2000, [First Edition], b/w photographic plates, hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 073291051

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear (see photographs)

'The public Jim McClelland was widely known and recognised.  Less well-known was Jim McClelland the private person - husband, father, friend.  Here Gillian creates an intimate portrait of her husband, drawing on McClelland's writing in his popular Sydney Morning Herald column, quotes from his colleagues, readers and friends, and her own insights into his life and beliefs.
Through her recollections and Jim McClellan's own words, Gillian covers those topics about which Jim felt passionately - politics, books, language, the natural and built environment, his adapted city of Sydney, and his friends.  She also delves into the things he deplored, such as racism, hypocrisy and pretension.'