{"product_id":"not-quite-straight-jeffrey-smart-9781741666274","title":"Not Quite Straight","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn updated edition of artist Jeffrey Smart's wicked and utterly engaging memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAustralian artist Jeffrey Smart's wicked and utterly engaging memoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBorn in respectable (read- dull) Adelaide in 1921, Jeffrey Smart made his first Grand Tour of Europe at age 4. By 5 he had discovered Sex (with a female classmate) and Crime. By 18 he'd decided he was the only person in Australia who was 'not quite straight'. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe subsequent decades brought further enlightenment, more travel, study with Fernand Leger, artistic development, adventures high and low, international acclaim, friends famous and infamous and - fittingly for someone who refers to himself as 'a European who carries an Australian passport' - a permanent return to the ancient, sun-soaked landscape of Tuscany. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Jeffrey Smart's account of that very full life. He writes with a wicked wit of his family, friends and lovers, and of his jobs, including being the much-loved Phidias in ABC Radio's 'The Argonauts' and the more lowly position of sink-scrubber on a slow boat to London, before finding fame as an artist. Throughout he is candid, funny and engaging. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike Smart's paintings, Not Quite Straight offers a singular perspective shaped by a unique life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Smart","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43650531361011,"sku":"9781741666274","price":22.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781741666274.jpg?v=1676660495","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/not-quite-straight-jeffrey-smart-9781741666274","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}