Misfits and Me

Collected Non-fiction
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-74223-610-0
Verlag: NewSouth Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

“I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses.”

Misfits and Me represents a selection of Mandy Sayer’s non-fiction writing from the past twenty years. Each essay has been chosen to reflect a different aspect of Mandy’s attraction to Australia’s misfits and outsiders, with those who live in the shadows of our society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sayer, Mandy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Life
- People Power at the Ponderosa
- Wild Frontier: The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads
- The Tincture of Health
- Flying High: The Rise & Guise of Self-Funded Retirees
- Girls Gone Wild
- Elsie Turns 40
- The Hordes
- Love
- Love & Death in Darlinghurst
- Sleepless in Samoa
- A Writer in the Family
- For the Love of Dog
- My New Orleans
- The Gift of Life
- Goodbye, Porkpie Hat
- Literature & Art
- Thea Astley Comes Out of the Shadows
- Sex, Lies, & Defamation
- In Ernest: Hemingway & The Art of the Story
- Satirists of Suburbia
- Letter to a Young Novelist
- Shaun Prescott: Modern Misfit

Über Autor(innen)

Mandy Sayer is a prize-winning novelist, poet and memoirist, not to mention a successful non-fiction writer. Her non-fiction work includes: Dreamtime Alice, winner of the National Biography Award, the New England Booksellers’ Award in the US and Australian Audio Book of the Year; Velocity, winner of the South Australian Premier’s Award for Non-Fiction and The Age Book of the Year for Non-Fiction; and The Poet’s Wife, shortlisted for the WA Book of the Year for Non-Fiction. In addition to her successful book Australian Gypsies, she has worked as a freelance writer and journalist for many years.