So This Is Life
Scenes from a Country Childhood
$46.99
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2010
Summary
So This Is Life is a wonderfully evocative account of youth that will surely take its place among the classics of Australian childhood.At age seven, after her parents’ marriage broke down, Anne Manne travelled with her mother and sisters from Adelaide to the Central Victorian countryside to begin a new life. So This Is Life is not a conventional memoir but a haunting and luminous account told through stories-unexpected moments of epiphany-where meaning, suddenly and sometimes shockingly, reve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522858204 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522858201 |
| Author: | Anne Manne |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2010 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 133mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Anne Manne
Anne Manne is a writer and social commentator who has been a regular columnist for The Australian and The Age. Her essays on contemporary life regularly appear in The Monthly magazine. She is the author of Motherhood- How Should We Care for Our Children, which was a finalist in the Walkley Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 2006, and the Quarterly Essay, ‘Love and Money- The Family and the Free Market’, published in 2008.
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