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Shooting the moon : a memoir / Louis Nowra.

By: Publication details: Sydney : Picador, 2004.Description: 197 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0330364901 :
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A822.3 22
LOC classification:
  • PR9619.3.N64 Z466 2004
Summary: "In this funny and moving memoir Louis Nowra, acclaimed playwright, novelist and screenwriter, takes us through an adulthood that includes actors, writers, directors, crazed producers, knife attacks, run-ins with police, one of the last transvestite priests of Sulawesi, an Eskimo Shaman, drunken nights in Moscow, women, Hollywood, the madness of filmmaking, an idiosyncratic uncle, stalkers, love, and a dangerous flirtation with alcohol. Shooting the Moon is a superb evocation of a very unconventional and colourful life." - Back cover
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Sequel to: The twelfth of never.

"In this funny and moving memoir Louis Nowra, acclaimed playwright, novelist and screenwriter, takes us through an adulthood that includes actors, writers, directors, crazed producers, knife attacks, run-ins with police, one of the last transvestite priests of Sulawesi, an Eskimo Shaman, drunken nights in Moscow, women, Hollywood, the madness of filmmaking, an idiosyncratic uncle, stalkers, love, and a dangerous flirtation with alcohol.
Shooting the Moon is a superb evocation of a very unconventional and colourful life." - Back cover

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