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Title: Flesh Wounds
Author: GLOVER RICHARD
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 24/02/2020
Imprint: ABC BOOKS
Price: $28.00
Publishing status: Active
A deluded mother who invented her past, an alcoholic father who couldn’t deal with the present, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glover’s favourite dinner party game is called ‘Who’s Got the Weirdest Parents?’. It’s a game he always thinks he’ll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard’s English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past – but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds – even if they are only flesh wounds.Part poignant family memoir, part hopeful search for the truth, this is a book for anyone who’s wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: ‘No’. There is always something stranger out there.PRAISE FOR FLESH WOUNDS’Both poignant and wildly entertaining’ – Sydney Morning Herald’A new classic … a breathtaking accomplishment in style and empathy’ – The Australian’Heartbreaking and hilarious … I couldn’t put it down’ – Sun Herald’Engrossing and extremely funny’- The Saturday Paper’Not since Unreliable Memoirs by Clive James has there been a funnier, more poignant portrait of an Australian childhood.’ – Australian Financial Review’Sad, funny, revealing, optimistic and hopeful’ – Jeanette Winterson
ISBN: 9780733340994