[Whole Wild World 01] • Whole Wild World

[Whole Wild World 01] • Whole Wild World
Authors
Dusevic, Tom
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Tags
biography
ISBN
9781742234724
Date
2016-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.48 MB
Lang
en
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In this exuberant and compelling memoir of family and childhood, readers will be swept away by Tom Dusevic's verve, warmth and honesty. 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.