Flesh Wounds

Publication Date : 24/8/2015
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A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family.

Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past - but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds.

Part poignant family memoir, part rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is a book for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: 'No'. There is always something stranger out there. 

(9780733334320)

SKU 9780733334320
Barcode # 9780733334320
Brand ABC Books
Artist / Author Richard Glover
Shipping Weight 0.3750kg
Shipping Width 0.020m
Shipping Height 0.210m
Shipping Length 0.154m
Unit Of Measure each
Publication Date 24/8/2015
Number of pages 304
format Paperback / softback

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