Unpolished Gem [DRM] - ebook
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The twentieth-anniversary edition of a modern Australian classicThis story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves.In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head-first into schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. Her mother becomes an Aussie battler an outworker, that is. Her father embraces the miracle of franchising and opens an electrical-appliance store. And every day her grandmother blesses Father Government for giving old people money.Unpolished Gem is a book rich in comedy, a loving and irreverent portrait of a family, its everyday struggles and bittersweet triumphs. This special twentieth-anniversary edition, with an afterword by the author, brings this Australian classic to a new generation of readers. This is a sophisticated and fiercely intelligent book. Helen Garner A memoir so vivid that images from it linger behind your eyelids. The Age Unpolished Gem is virtuoso storytelling. The Australian Poignant, provocative...laugh-out-loud funny Kirkus
Pamiętaj, ebook będzie dostępny do pobrania wyłącznie w wybranym przez Ciebie formacie.
Ebook po zakupie nie będzie dostępny do czytania w aplikacji Empik Go.
The twentieth-anniversary edition of a modern Australian classicThis story does not begin on a boat. Nor does it contain any wild swans or falling leaves.In a wonderland called Footscray, a girl named Alice and her Chinese-Cambodian family pursue the Australian Dream Asian style. Armed with an ocker accent, Alice dives head-first into schooling, romance and the getting of wisdom. Her mother becomes an Aussie battler an outworker, that is. Her father embraces the miracle of franchising and opens an electrical-appliance store. And every day her grandmother blesses Father Government for giving old people money.Unpolished Gem is a book rich in comedy, a loving and irreverent portrait of a family, its everyday struggles and bittersweet triumphs. This special twentieth-anniversary edition, with an afterword by the author, brings this Australian classic to a new generation of readers. This is a sophisticated and fiercely intelligent book. Helen Garner A memoir so vivid that images from it linger behind your eyelids. The Age Unpolished Gem is virtuoso storytelling. The Australian Poignant, provocative...laugh-out-loud funny Kirkus
| Kategoria: | Biography & Autobiography |
| Język: | Angielski |
| Zabezpieczenie: | brak |
| ISBN: | 978-1-921825-38-5 |
| Rozmiar pliku: | 5,8 MB |