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So This Is Life - Scenes from a Country Childhood (Paperback)
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So This Is Life - Scenes from a Country Childhood (Paperback)
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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, reveals itself.
Possessing an astonishingly faithful and vivid memory of the pain,
fear and joy of childhood; a sensibility keenly alive to the beauty
of the landscape, the fellow-creatureliness of animals and the
comedy, tragedy and dignity of the lives of the country folk she
grew up among, So This Is Life shows a powerful moral vision being
shaped, about the meaning of kindness, and the desolation of grief.
It depicts worlds as far apart as the faded gentility of former
goldfields wealth, and the patriarchal spivvery of the country
racetrack. Full of inconsolable pain but also impish humour, these
stories sparkle like gems.
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