Pluck : exploits of the single-minded / Michael Burge
- Bib ID:
- 7047103
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- Book
- Author:
- Burge, Michael, 1970-, author
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- Description:
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- [Coochiemudlo Island, Queensland] : Michael Burge, 2015
- ©2015
- 1 online resource.
- ISBN:
- 9780994388742 (ebook)
- Technical Details:
- Available online at the State Library of Queensland for onsite users only.
- Summary:
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Leaving a mark on history is usually the result of courage, but it always starts by simply making a stand. Since 2009, Michael Burge has written about single-minded individuals who faced fear, grief and oppression, yet went through with defiant acts of social and cultural rebellion. Many of them got a very bad name in the process, or had their motives shrouded in mystery. Pluck is Michael's re-examination of several divas, dilettantes, groundbreakers, chameleons, rebels and heroes faced with crossroads, comebacks and reinventions. This collection reveals new perspectives on fame and sheds a timely light on lives which may never be acclaimed, yet went where angels fear to tread.
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- Foreword
- Don't fuck with Judy Davis
- Mrs Christie would kill for a holiday
- Shakespeare: a farmer who cultivated words
- Matthew Flinders: navigating prejudice
- Carbon Cate's direct action on the cultural cringe
- Orry-Kelly, the costume king from Kiama
- The false start we gave Ian Thorpe
- Alan Bennett: the mystery boy
- Katie Webb and the Cave Boys
- Tony and Bern Sutton: equality people
- Dymphna Cusack & Florence James: literary chicks
- Margaret Betts: tree planter
- Lottie Lyall: the sentimental girl
- Janet Mays: forging independence
- Angela Lansbury: the sharpest battleaxe
- Helene Hanff, lady of letters
- Annie Lennox: tarnished angel
- Grit & Gentility
- Nellie Melba & the daffodil farmer
- The sould searching of Whitney Houston
- Branwell Brontë: literature's never-was
- Beryl Guertner: décor queen
- Summer Locke Elliott: loved us but left us
- The wilderness years of Meryl Streep
- The writer's block of E.M. Forster.
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- Title from EPUB cover page (viewed on August 20 2021)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Available online at the State Library of Queensland for onsite users only.
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