Anything can happen / Susan Hampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hampton, Susan, 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hampton, Susan, 1949-.

Hampton, Susan.

Poets, Australian--20th century--Biography.

Poets, Australian.

Authors, Australian--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Australian.

Genre:

autobiographies (literary works)

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Waratah, New South Wales : Puncher & Wattmann, 2024.

Summary:

"Warm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful, Anything Can Happen is a memoir from one of Australia's literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. It keeps in play so many things: irony and spirituality, a slice of social history of Sydney's inner west, a farm in Victoria, a lesbian subculture, Mardi Gras, the literary pleasures of teaching writing. Juxtaposition is her gift, as is the very natural speaking voice. With the eye of a poet, and the dry drollery of someone who has experienced it all, straight and married, gay and married, mother, friend, lover, writer, this is a raw and powerful account of a life lived fully"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Night

Annandale and Blacktown

Bird

The gardener and the radiographer

The farm

Tommy Part 1

Canberra and Slovenia

Tommy Part 2

Davo.

ISBN:

9781923099012

1923099019

OCLC:

1427016570