Flesh Wounds

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Abc Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 285 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family. Richard Glovers favourite dinner-party game is called Whos Got the Weirdest Parents. Its a game he always wins. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richards 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 rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is a book for anyone whos wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: No. There is always something stranger out there.

ISBN: 9780733334320