A review by stillmsp
My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin

4.0

Most of the fascination of this book derives from the fact that Miles Franklin has taken the response to [b:My Brilliant Career|119042|My Brilliant Career|Miles Franklin|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348054579s/119042.jpg|114613], the prurience, the disapproval, the simple conflation of author and character, and hit it for six. Franklin is fearless, funny and unsparing in describing the strange responses of her countrymen to her little "spoof autobiography". In [b:My Career Goes Bung|119044|My Brilliant Career My Career Goes Bung|Miles Franklin|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223645196s/119044.jpg|114615], rather than slink away quietly, chastened and vowing to repent, Franklin comes out swinging. How fortunate that she didn't use a nom de plume the first time round, for if she had we never would have had the unique reflection on writing and society that is [b:My Career Goes Bung|119044|My Brilliant Career My Career Goes Bung|Miles Franklin|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223645196s/119044.jpg|114615].