The Memory Pool - Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming

Smell the chlorine, taste the hot chips and feel the burning concrete underfoot as you read these stories of Australian childhoods at the pool.
Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool - whether it's an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool - is where they pass summer days. Pools are places of imagination, daring, belonging, freedom, friendship and romance. For some they are places of hard-core swimming training.
This delightful, nostalgic anthology brings together reflections and recollections about the swimming pools of childhood from a range of Australians of diverse ages and backgrounds, well known and not-so-famous, including Trent Dalton, Leah Purcell, Shane Gould, Bryan Brown and Merrick Watts.
Evocative, funny and sometimes bittersweet, 28 people remember the pools that shaped their childhoods. Everyone who has ever dived into their local Olympic pool, bush waterhole or saltwater baths will want to submerge themselves in this beautiful book.

About the author

Therese Spruhan is a Sydney-based photographer, journalist, freelance writer, and swimmer who blogs about pools and swimming.

Summary

Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool - whether it's an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool - is where they pass summer days. Evocative, funny and sometimes bittersweet, almost 30 people remember the pools that shaped their childhoods.

Product details

• Authors: Therese Spruhan
• Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781742236582
• ISBN: 978-1-74223-658-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 377 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Australasien, Ozeanien und andere Landgebiete im Pazifik, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Australian & Oceanian