Stillways A Memoir
Afbeeldingen
Sla de afbeeldingen overArtikel vergelijken
Samenvatting
A raw, rough, poetic, funny, intensely moving and quite, quite beautiful memoir about a boy from the bush, growing up in Australian in the sixties.
From one of Australia's favourite actors comes a classic memoir of an Australian childhood in the sixties.
Young Steve was a larrikin, happy-go-lucky, resilient kid, coming of age in a simpler time. Growing up on a farm cut from virgin scrub at the end of a lake, a farm called Stillways, Steve daydreamed about cars and escape. His story is about him heroworshipping his older brother with Brylcreem in his hair; going to school as a young kid with bus money knotted into a hanky and clutching his Globite schoolcase; fighting bullies at school and dreaming about girls; being amazed at the first television in town; remembering where he was when Marilyn Monroe died...
But there's a darker thread running through the story: the father who'd take out his frustrations by savagely belting his young children; a struggling mother who'd do anything to protect her kids; a young boy irrevocably marked by his father's anger.
Endearing, funny, honest and unflinching - this memoir will become an Australian classic.
'Tender and admirable' The Australian
'Poetic, evocative' Sydney Morning Herald
'We know Steve Bisley can act, but can he write? Bloody oath he can. Bisley evokes the Aussie bush so vividly you can smell the eucalypts and the cowpats and the hay and the bushfire smoke as you turn each page. You can hear the creek babbling, the kookas in the trees, the wind rustling the grass. Stillways is disarmingly, sometimes embarrassingly, honest. A book full of joy, anger, regret, hope, lust and love.' Hobart Mercury
'The astonishing thing about this memoir is that it contains so much joy.' Jennifer Byrne.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards, and the 2014 National Biography Awards.
From one of Australia's favourite actors comes a classic memoir of an Australian childhood in the sixties.
Young Steve was a larrikin, happy-go-lucky, resilient kid, coming of age in a simpler time. Growing up on a farm cut from virgin scrub at the end of a lake, a farm called Stillways, Steve daydreamed about cars and escape. His story is about him heroworshipping his older brother with Brylcreem in his hair; going to school as a young kid with bus money knotted into a hanky and clutching his Globite schoolcase; fighting bullies at school and dreaming about girls; being amazed at the first television in town; remembering where he was when Marilyn Monroe died...
But there's a darker thread running through the story: the father who'd take out his frustrations by savagely belting his young children; a struggling mother who'd do anything to protect her kids; a young boy irrevocably marked by his father's anger.
Endearing, funny, honest and unflinching - this memoir will become an Australian classic.
'Tender and admirable' The Australian
'Poetic, evocative' Sydney Morning Herald
'We know Steve Bisley can act, but can he write? Bloody oath he can. Bisley evokes the Aussie bush so vividly you can smell the eucalypts and the cowpats and the hay and the bushfire smoke as you turn each page. You can hear the creek babbling, the kookas in the trees, the wind rustling the grass. Stillways is disarmingly, sometimes embarrassingly, honest. A book full of joy, anger, regret, hope, lust and love.' Hobart Mercury
'The astonishing thing about this memoir is that it contains so much joy.' Jennifer Byrne.
Shortlisted for the 2014 Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards, and the 2014 National Biography Awards.
Productspecificaties
Wij vonden geen specificaties voor jouw zoekopdracht '{SEARCH}'.
Inhoud
- Taal
- en
- Bindwijze
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 304
Betrokkenen
- Hoofdauteur
- Steve Bisley
- Hoofduitgeverij
- Harpercollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
Overige kenmerken
- Studieboek
- Nee
- Verpakking breedte
- 156 mm
- Verpakking hoogte
- 22 mm
- Verpakking lengte
- 209 mm
- Verpakkingsgewicht
- 366 g
EAN
- EAN
- 9780732297848
Kies gewenste uitvoering
Kies je bindwijze
(2)
Prijsinformatie en bestellen
De prijs van dit product is 80 euro en 83 cent. Dit is een tweedehands product.Alleen tweedehands
Goed
Uiterlijk 5 juni in huis
Verkoop door
Bogamo 13 - Boeken outlet
- Bestellen en betalen via bol
- Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door Bogamo 13 - Boeken outlet
- 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
Shop dit artikel
Anderen bekeken ook
Rapporteer dit artikel
Je wilt melding doen van illegale inhoud over dit artikel:
- Ik wil melding doen als klant
- Ik wil melding doen als autoriteit of trusted flagger
- Ik wil melding doen als partner
- Ik wil melding doen als merkhouder
Geen klant, autoriteit, trusted flagger, merkhouder of partner? Gebruik dan onderstaande link om melding te doen.