Whole wild world / Tom Dusevic.
Publication details: Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth Publishing, 2016.Description: xii, 257 pages : illustration ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781742234724 :
- Whole wild world : a memoir
- 305.906912092 23
- DU122.C7 D87 2016
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 305.906 DUS | Available | 065016 |
"A memoir" -- Cover.
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Machine generated contents note: 1.Escapees -- 2.Love-struck -- 3.Lost in space -- 4.Hit and run -- 5.Smoking gun -- 6.Tug of war -- 7.Year Five blues -- 8.Rule Britannica -- 9.Employed at last -- 10.Where eagles dread -- 11.Wombles -- 12.Night fevers -- 13.Crossroads -- 14.Slow learner -- 15.Freestyle -- 16.Above the clouds.
Suburban Sydney in the 1970s is an adventure playground, especially for a busybody, free-range kid with energy, big appetites and ungodly urges. In such open space, backyards are arenas for daydreaming and free play, scars are marks of wisdom and school is an obstacle course between pleasure and pain. And so is home, as the author tries to make sense of his parents' history and identity, known but unknowable, as post-war refugees from Croatia. He longs to be liberated from the family's quirks and the past and finds his escape in quiet moments of awe and simplicity.
