How To Make Gravy

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penguin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: First Edition

Description: 688 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Paul Kelly is a uniquely gifted storyteller. For thirty years he has written songs of uncommon directness about everything from love and land rights to cricket and cooking. Before Too Long, To Her Door, Leaps And Bounds, Dont Start Me Talking, Dumb Things, From Little Things Big Things Grow, How To Make Gravy - his songs connect generations of listeners across the country.In a memoir that has been greeted with acclaim by critics and adulation by fans, Kelly takes the lyrics of his songs as starting points to tell the stories of his life - the highs and lows of performing, the art of songwriting, being on the road with the band, tales of his childhood, family, friends and fellow musicians. All illuminate Kellys wide sources of inspiration, offering an unequalled portrait of the creative mind.Playful and honest, insightful and intimate, How To Make Gravyis an irresistible reflection on both the big and little things in life.Kellys specially recorded versions of the A to Z songs, stripped back to their essentials as solo or duo performances, are available digitally and in a companion CD boxed set that included a 64-pages booklet of photographs.A carnival of ideas . . . The flavour of Kelly - his openness and honesty and passion for the detail of life - he suffuses the book . . . The closest weve come to an insight into the thoughts and work methods of this great poet.Weekly ReviewThe pre-eminent writer of his generation. His body of work stands against any novelist, playwright or filmmaker as the definitive narrative of recent decades. Weekend AustralianPerhaps the finest and most unflinching autobiography ever written by an Australian musician. Noel Mengel

ISBN: 9780143795995