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Misfits & me : collected nonfiction / Mandy Sayer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sayer, Mandy, 1963- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sayer, Mandy, 1963-.
- Sayer, Mandy.
- Sayer, Mandy, 1963---Travel.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities--Australia.
- Eccentrics and eccentricities.
- Australia--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Australia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (152 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney, NSW : NewSouth, 2018.
- Summary:
- 'I fellin love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchairwho 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 hislap, and smother him with kisses.'.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prelude
- Life
- People Power at Ponderosa
- Wild Frontier: The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads
- The Hordes
- The Tincture of Health
- Flying High: The Rise and Guise of Self-Funded Retirees
- Girls Gone Wild
- Elsie Turns Forty
- Love
- Love and Death in Darlinghurst
- My New Orleans
- Sleepless in Samoa
- A Writer in the Family
- For the Love of Dog
- The Gift of Life
- Goodbye, Pork Pie Hat: Fourteen Ways to Say Farewell
- Literature and Art
- Thea Astley Comes Out of the Shadows
- Sex, Lies and Defamation
- In Ernest: Hemingway and the Art of the Story
- Satirists of Suburbia: Mrs Edna Everage Paints John Brack
- Letter to a Young Novelist
- Shaun Prescott: Modern Misfit
- Coda
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-74224-433-5
- OCLC:
- 1080081958
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