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Beyond words : a year with Kenneth Cook / Jacqueline Kent.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.3.C569 K46 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kent, Jacqueline, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships.
- Australia.
- Cook, Kenneth, 1929-1987.
- Cook, Kenneth.
- Kent, Jacqueline, 1947-.
- Kent, Jacqueline.
- Authors, Australian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Australian.
- Man-woman relationships--Australia.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 247 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, QLD : UQP, 2019.
- Summary:
- A moving and powerful memoir of love and loss in the 1980s Australian literary scene. In 1985 Jacqueline Kent was content with her life. She had a satisfying career as a freelance book editor, and was emerging as a writer. Living and working alone, she relished her independence. But then she met Kenneth Cook, author of the Australian classic Wake in Fright, and they fell in love. With bewildering speed Jacqueline found herself in alien territory: with a man almost twenty years older, whose life experience could not have been more different from her own. She had to come to terms with complicated finances and expectations, and to negotiate relationships with Ken's children, four people almost her own age. But with this man of contradictions - funny and sad, headstrong and tender - she found real and sustaining companionship. Their life together was often joyful, sometimes enraging, always exciting - until one devastating evening. But, as Jacqueline discovered, even when a story is over that doesn't mean it has come to an end.
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Because he was he, I was I
- A meeting of minds
- The writing life
- Conversations
- Out of the dark
- It's only money
- Dowries
- Doing your darg
- Be it ever so humble
- Try anything once
- Narromine
- pt. 2. The past is unpredictable
- Epitaphs
- In the stone house
- Afterword
- Appendixes
- Australian dictionary of biography entry
- 'My works': books by Kenneth Cook.
- Notes:
- Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780702260391
- 0702260398
- 9780702262081
- 0702262080
- 9780702262074
- 0702262072
- 9780702262098
- 0702262099
- OCLC:
- 1049711848
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