Jack of all trades, mistress of one / Graham Bond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bond, Grahame, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction.

Australian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : New South Publishing, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Things were never quite the same once Aunty Jack roared onto our television screens in the 1970s, threatening to rip our bloody arms off. In this funny and moving memoir, Grahame Bond celebrates - and at times curses - his most famous creation and tells of how he found an 'imaginary family' of other brilliant writers, actors, musicians and performers along the way. Jack of All Trades is jam-packed with extraordinary characters, many of them real - if unknown - Bond relatives, and a good number of them Aussie TV icons. We become acquainted with Bond's beloved parents as he grows up an only chil

Contents:

Contents; The bit before the book; Marrickville, 1943; Braidwood, 1949; School days, 1955; Architecture, 1961; The Graduate, 1968; Aunty vs ABC,1971; My Horrible Anus Years, 1975; Boy's Own Mcbeth, 1978; Advertising, 1982; Amateur Archaeology, 1996; Take a Bow; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-74224-573-0

OCLC:

769342347