TY - BOOK AU - Pascoe,Michael TI - The summertime of our dreams: on mateship, mortality and the road home SN - 9781761151019 U1 - 070.92 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Ultimo, NSW PB - Ultimo Press KW - Pascoe, Michael. KW - Pascoe, Michael KW - Journalists KW - Australia KW - Biography KW - Fatherhood KW - Friendship KW - Memoirs KW - thema KW - Sociology: family and relationships KW - Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss KW - Australian KW - Biography & Memoir (Queensland,Australia) KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft N1 - 'A moving reflection on fatherhood and friendship from a life well and thoughtfully lived.' Mike Carlton -- Cover; 'Wise, tender, elegiac. A story about cars, rugby and travelling into country turns into a graceful eulogy for the secret codes of good men.' Susan Johnson. -- Back cover; Includes bibliographical references N2 - An unforgettable celebration of life, a hymn to the land, and a meditation on the memory and dreams of youth. To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his eyes into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. Michael Pascoe weaves an evocative and unusual memoir around his relationship with Jim, his friend since boarding school, as he faces up to terminal illness. We meet a group of friends exploring their youth, the travails and hilarity of aging, dealing with mortality and letting go ER -