Holden's Performance

Informationen zum Autor Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. He is the author of four novels and two collections of short stories. Harvill Secker published his Notebooks in 2005. His novel Eucalyptus was awarded the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Klappentext Shadbolt! Holden.Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to cinema bouncer to Prime Ministerial bodyguard. Guileless and matter of fact! Holden is fated to follow the flamboyant people around him- ex-Corporal McBee! who zealously woos Holden's mother; Zusammenfassung Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34. Model: Australian. No frills. Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to cinema bouncer to Prime Ministerial bodyguard. Guileless and matter of fact, Holden is fated to follow the flamboyant people around him- ex-Corporal McBee, who zealously woos Holden's mother; his Uncle Vern, a short-sighted proof -reader with a fondness for eating the morning paper with his cereal; and Harriet, the crippled poster artist, whose twists and curves intersect with Holden's unswervingly straight lines...

Product details

• Authors: Murray Bail, Bail Murray
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.12.2000
• EAN: 9781860465925
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-592-5
• No. of pages: 367
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Panther; Panther
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Australia, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, c 1980 to c 1989, FICTION / World Literature / Australia, notebooks; eucalyptus; australian