My family and other animus / James Jeffrey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jeffrey, James, 1972 or 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, Australian--Biography.

Authors, Australian.

Journalists--Australia--Biography.

Journalists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2018.

Summary:

For the young James Jeffrey, the day his parents split was like the splitting of the atom. Life took on a seismic instability filled with madness and strain and vendetta and daftness and acts of love, both beautiful and misguided. Yet, what could have been a calamitous upbringing turned instead into an education. For better or worse, his family handed out lessons that would guide him through life, into marriage, and eventually parenthood. My Family and Other Animus is an ode to his family.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Copyright

Contents

A blade, a kiss, the blessings of families

I Within these four shaking walls

1 When the boat comes in

2 The best way to a man's heart

3 Motors operandi

4 Judgment daze

5 Mouths of babes

II Caution: ghost sex ahead

6 Of mice and sharks

7 Lest we beget

8 Onion dome dreaming

9 Getting it on

10 Sleepless

11 Off my faith

12 For special occasions

13 Generations

III Out in the world

14 A home among the Gumtree

15 Fists of iron

16 Inflammable material

17 Log off, delete your account

18 More beer, vicar?

19 With this ring

IV The world keeps turning

20 Opal country

21 Morning-after dill

22 Carried away by ants

23 Here's Johnny

24 Dear Malcolm

25 When the ferry goes out

26 Friendship's twilight

27 Ticking, tocking

Après Mum, le déluge.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780522872774

0522872778

OCLC:

1031091719