Margot HiltonRecensioni

There are two biographies of Whiteley that came out at about the same time. I recommend both. The other was written by his sister, Frannie Hopkirk. This is the more salacious of the two, and really gets into the dissolute life which led to Whiteley's accidental(?), certainly untimely death by heroin overdose. Read both, though the tension building to the climax is better in the Hopkirk volume.

Whitely's tortured soul is exposed in all its complexity - complexity that produced some of Australia's most authentic artistic interior narrative. Whitely would have been proud of the shocking pink binding.