Beyond words : a year with Kenneth Cook / Jacqueline Kent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kent, Jacqueline, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cook, Kenneth, 1929-1987.

Cook, Kenneth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

St Lucia, Queensland, Australia : University of Queensland Press, [2019]

Summary:

In 1985 Jacqueline Kent 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 a 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:

Cover

Half title page

Title page

Imprint page

Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Part 1: Beause he was he, because 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

Part 2: The past is unpredictable

Epitaphs

In the stone house

Afterword

Appendixes

Australian Dictionary of Biography entry

'My works': Books by Kenneth Cook

Captions

Endnotes

Acknowledgements.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7022-6208-0

0-7022-6207-2