Wool Away, Boy!
A Ripping Memoir of Life in the Shearing Sheds
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2016
Summary
A firsthand account of the shearing sheds of the 1950s and 60s.
The son of a shearer, Alan Blunt spent his teenage years in the woolsheds of the 1950s and 60s. As his father laboured, Alan would imagine himself opening the batting for Australia or boxing for the world middleweight championship, only to be startled out of his daydream with a cry of “Wool away, boy. Wake up!”
In this colourful memoir Alan chronicles all the larger-than-life personalities he met – the misfits, ro…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143780366 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143780360 |
| Author: | Alan Blunt |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | William Heinemann Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 430g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 155mm x 26mm |
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About The Author
Alan Blunt
Alan Blunt worked the woolsheds in outback Queensland for thirty years. A keen observer of character, he recorded portraits of fellow workers by the light of a pressure lamp, filling foolscap pads. Later, he had stories published in the outback and metropolitan press. In 1993, he formed a touring theatre troupe based at Longreach, which he ran successfully for twenty years. Alan, a small legend in his own right, still performs two one-man shows a week, is writing a novel, and makes frequent guest appearances on local ABC Radio.
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