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Killing Time: Short Stories from the Long Road Home (Hardcover)
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Killing Time: Short Stories from the Long Road Home (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R487
Discovery Miles 4 870
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Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss - this collection
of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned
writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing
Time shares more than forty yarns reflecting an epic life - from an
encounter with a soul legend in Memphis, a night in a haunted
studio in upstate New York, and a doomed haircut in Thailand to a
madcap misunderstanding in a Japanese ski resort, a family feud on
a remote coral atoll, and an all-too-revealing appearance for a
Sydney charity. PRAISE FOR KILLING TIME: A moving and deeply felt
kaleidoscope of life, love, family, music, friendship and the
fragility of time. Barnes proved his storytelling mettle with his
memoirs. But in Killing Time he has refined his unique voice with
this wildly entertaining suite of tales, anecdotes, observations
and reflections that can have you laughing out loud on one page and
moved to tears on the next. It is all here, the joys and fears of
parenthood, the search for your sense of place, fortune-tellers,
the loss of beloved pets, bad golf, ghosts, backstage stories,
celebrities, the homeless, and the wonder of being alive, all told
with searing honesty. What sets Barnes's writing above the rest is
that it comes from an authentic and soulful place. His work cannot
help but ring true, like the strike of a tuning fork. - MATT CONDON
Jimmy Barnes is never a bystander. Stories happen to him. He not
only remembers every circumstance, he has the ability to distil the
moment in a way that's both poetic and uncontrived. He's funny,
chaotic, insightful and heartbreaking. Jimmy is truly a
natural-born storyteller. It's like writing has just been waiting
for him to arrive. And now, he's here. - MANDY NOLAN
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