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Biographer Henry Lew allows Brodzky to tell his own story wherever feasible via edited excerpts from original documents; elsewhere missing details have been meticulously researched and seamlessly integrated. A ripper read. — Diane Carlyle. (Melbourne editor and reviewer.) (The Australian 4/4/2001.)

I greatly enjoyed reading “The Five Walking Sticks.” Yours was a bold experiment to use the first person. It is largely successful and I can see how it helped you get inside Brodzky’s character and motivations, capturing his romantic and idealistic inclinations. In my view you have got closer to the historical truth than most thesis-writers could. — Michael Cannon. (Australian historian and writer, author of “The Land Boomers.”)

Brodzky seems to have been a fascinating character and Henry Lew’s modestly fictionalised biography, which contains an enormous amount of research and many fine examples of Brodzky’s writing, is equal to its extraordinary subject. — Cameron Woodhead. (Melbourne reviewer) (The Age “Pick of the Week” 28/09/2002)

Completing the reading of your book is like being at the end of a journey and having the book allows one to remember every step of the way. I am going to re-read it. It is a brilliant work, a new way of writing a biography. Similar to a doppelganger; Brodzky as an apparition or shadow or double of yourself; a phantom extension of your will, you the author submerged in his artistic identity. Quite intriguing! Sometimes I did not know who was writing the book, you or he. What a treasure to have in my library. Thank you. — Laurel Hessing. (New York playwright, author of “The Golden Bear.”)

Lew has brought the rich, venal, high-minded world of Melbourne’s zenith back to life through one of its most colourful witnesses. — Peter Pierce. (Professor of Australian Literature James Cook University, author, reviewer and editor of “The Oxford Literary Guide to Australia.) (The Bulletin 5/6/2001.)

Dr. Lew has done a marvellous job, using original documents and old issues of Table Talk to tell the talented Brodzky’s story. A fascinating read. — Dr. Jacqualine Hollingworth. (History Teachers Association of Victoria.) (Agora 1/10/2001.)