Awake: 'recollections of gold town'

By: Hoey, Greg

#HighlyIntelligent#Independent#Compelling#BeautifullyWritten#Daring#Original#Innovative#BLACKLISTEDFrom black books comes a powerful coming of age memoir of a child's recollections of growing up in a gold mining town. A story and a must read family drama highly recommended written by an elephant in the room. A really great read. A remarkable forgotten hours style of tragicomedy highly recommended to put on your top shelf collection."The old out-back gold-town of Kalgoorlie has never before been so richly-strangely or so poignantly transcribed by way of prose as it undoubtedly deserves to be, and indeed has been so done in this wonderful memoir of a childhood once lived "Powerful. Compelling. Great prose, Great story-telling abilities, Dramatic. Complex and acutely intelligent are the words best used to convey the breadth and majesty of this undoubted classic " -Carey Holbourn-Armfield"Bloody Brilliant read Thoroughly recommended" -5star review since deletedFrom the author; This is a somewhat tragi/comical memoir, though for all of that it has no agenda like so many who use their own personal accounts to implore their readership into some kind of political activist mentality usually related to some minorities entitlements or rights. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THOSE BOOKS It is meant to be read purely from a literary perspective none other..'Bravo monsieur Hoey, votre livre est veill plus superlative et le plus bel exemple de la litt rature moderne. Je suis d sol que vous n' tes pas un Fran ais, car alors je serais facilement rccommend ce livre pour un prix litt raires fran ais de paris. vraiment grand. Encore bravo ' - Thomas Hilloc."An interesting if not provocative little read"-Gunter"Bloody Brilliant read Thoroughly recommended"From the Inside Flap"Being an Englishman with a distinct lack of taste for the general stereotype of your typical sports-loving boorish Australian, I must say I undertook the reading of this book with a certain amount of trepidation. To my surprise it surpasses anything by any other writer I have read so far at least within the last five or so years]. And written by an 'aussie'. It is a fine thing then to find out that this nation of the sports obsessed buffoon actually has at its core a much richer life behind the ugly stereotype. Your book reveals these hidden depths of a nation far too well known for its sporting achievements at the expense of other more nuanced options. Beautiful." - Owen Etheridge.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1707967539
• ISBN13: 9781707967537
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"