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A Bloody Good Rant : My Passions, Memories and Demons.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keneally, Thomas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keneally, Thomas.
- Authors, Australian--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Australian.
- Grandfathers--Australia--Biography.
- Grandfathers.
- Faith.
- Death.
- Refugees--Australia.
- Refugees.
- Republicanism--Australia.
- Republicanism.
- Climatic changes--Australia.
- Climatic changes.
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of.
- Civilization.
- Economic history.
- Manners and customs.
- Politics and government.
- Australia--History--20th century.
- Australia.
- Australia--History--21st century.
- Australia--Civilization--20th century.
- Australia--Civilization--21st century.
- Australia--Politics and government--20th century.
- Australia--Politics and government--21st century.
- Australia--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Australia--Social life and customs--21st century.
- Australia--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Australia--Economic conditions--21st century.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (401 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Bloody Good Rant
- Place of Publication:
- Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2022.
- Summary:
- "Thomas Keneally has been observing, reflecting on and writing about Australia and the human condition for well over fifty years. In this deeply personal, passionately drawn and richly tuned collection he draws on a lifetime of engagement with the great issues of our recent history and his own moments of discovery and understanding. He writes with unbounded joy of being a grandparent, and with intimacy and insight about the prospect of death and the meaning of faith. He is outraged about the treatment of Indigenous Australians and refugees, and argues fiercely against market economics and the cowardice of climate change deniers. And he introduces us to some of the people, both great and small, who have dappled his life"--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Cover
- About the Author
- Title page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author's note
- Commonwealth
- The ancient crowd: my hero (ancestor)
- Enigmas: history/myth story
- Two thousand generations
- The great Australian unease
- Enigmas: any mug can write a novel
- The climate and things around: selling them, buying them
- The shock of the global
- Enigmas: third phase, grandparency
- Mephistopheles and the boys from the CIA
- Women of Australia
- Fracking for the market
- The climate business: flames
- 'Unnatural males' and me
- And who is this Adam Smith bloke?
- The Yartz, god bless 'em
- Enigmas: the greatest scandal
- The CIA man I knew, and associated questions
- Enigmas: death, the cosmic 'ouch!'
- Our monarchical republic
- The people of the human god
- Enigmas: the presence/absence
- The reffos go multicultural
- Weeping for SIEV X
- Two sides of Australia: living in Chinese exile/being a Hajji
- That old chestnut: what is an Australian?
- Postscript: a new name, COVID-19
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781742698977
- 1742698972
- OCLC:
- 1276861393
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