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Close to home : selected writings / Alice Pung.
Van Pelt Library PR9619.4.P86 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pung, Alice, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Essays. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pung, Alice.
- Pung, Alice--Anecdotes.
- Australian essays--21st century.
- Australian essays.
- Melbourne (Vic.)--Social conditions.
- Melbourne (Vic.).
- Social conditions.
- Victoria--Melbourne.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 276 pages ; 24 cm
- regular print
- Place of Publication:
- Carlton, VIC, Australia : Black Inc, [2018]
- Summary:
- This delightful collection brings together Alice Pung's most loved writing, on migration, family, identity, art and more. Warm, funny, moving and unfailingly honest, this is Alice Pung at her best - an irresistible delight for fans and new readers alike. In 2006, Alice Pung published Unpolished Gem, her award-winning memoir of growing up Chinese-Australian in working-class Footscray. Since then, she has written on everything from the role of grandparents to the corrosive effects of racism; from the importance of literature to the legacy of her parents' migration from Cambodia as asylum seekers. In all of this, a central thread is the idea of home: how the places we live and the connections we form shape who we become, and what homecoming can mean to those who build their lives in Australia.
- Contents:
- Stealing from little Saigon
- Visits
- Home truths
- Mum in the forbidden city
- The field marker
- At school and on the page
- Close to home.
- ISBN:
- 9781760640910
- 1760640913
- OCLC:
- 1044956879
- Publisher Number:
- 99982888299
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