Old Boy
- Bib ID:
- 10000000
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Tree, Georgia, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2023
- Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2023
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- ISBN:
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- 1760991880
- 1760991899
- 9781760991883
- 9781760991890
- Summary:
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Her whole life, Georgia's father has told her she will be the one to write his story. It's a story in which living is just a game of chance - why did Grant Tree survive when others didn't? Why did he find love and happiness, and a grown daughter to spill his story to so that she can record the whole beautiful, unlikely mess of it? Told in parallel to Grant's story is the life of his friend and dealer Brian Geoffrey Chambers, known in the book as Charlie, who was ultimately executed in Malaysia for drug smuggling. Narrated in vivid, conversational detail as transcribed by Grant's daughter from hours of recorded interviews and underlaid with research into life in Perth and the north-west from the 1930s to 1988, this memoir details the rites of passage of young manhood, ordinariness, dysfunction, and what is like to live on the edges of other more ordinary suburban working class Australians.
- Full contents:
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- Front Cover
- Title Page
- About the Author
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Contents
- Rewind
- On Parole
- Part One 1963-1975
- Lyall Street
- The Old Police Station on Stirling Highway
- The Other Side of the Swan
- John Street
- Part Two 1975-1982
- By the Koshi River
- Marine Parade
- An Artist's Studio in North Freo
- Wembley
- An EK Parked on Hawkstone Street
- Cornwall Street
- Fremantle Prison
- Part Three 1983-1988
- The Mermaid and the Gully Monster
- The Nullarbor
- Dampier Single Quarters
- Berkeley Crescent
- 1988
- Penang Prison
- Fast Forward.
- Author's Notes
- References
- Copyright.
- Notes:
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- Includes bibliographical references.
- Print version record
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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