pickThis is a very funny and poignant book that my husband has been telling me to read for years. I‘ve finally read it and I‘m not disappointed. This follows Clive‘s early life in Australia as a young child and young adult. Laugh out loud funny at times ( the dunny can man story and the billy cart story amongst others) it is well worth reading.
pickI read this when it first came out and it was just as funny, and oddly moving, as I remember it.
Most of the book, containing the funniest bits, is an account of growing up in Australia in the 1950s. He is unsparing of himself when recounting his adolescent thoughtlessness, particularly towards his widowed mother, and his accounts of his teenage sexual misadventures will strike a chord with anyone who has ever been, or known, a 13-year-old boy.
Fun prompt from Electric Literature on Instagram today. What would your memoir be?
Use first, middle, and last initials!
#2017recap
I read a lot of memoirs this year, which isn‘t unusual for me. Hunger, Between the World and Me, and What Happened were some of my rare 5-Star reads!
#Commonwealthauthors All these authors moved from one Commonwealth nation to another. Clive James, Kathy Lette and Germaine Greer are Australian expats now living in the U.K., and Elizabeth Jolley (deceased) moved to Australia from the UK. Elizabeth Jolley was a lecturer of mine at uni and I like her unusual, quirky work. #Marchintoreading
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