The Summertime Of Our Dreams

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Ultimo Press
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2022
Edition: First Edition

Description: 343 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An unforgettable celebration of life, a hymn to the land, and a meditation on the memory and dreams of youth.To be invited to walk beside a dying man, a good man, to be asked into his mind as its existence is counted down, to be offered his gaze into the abyss, to know another soul in the honesty of the deathbed. A privilege. ?Here is a moving and unusual memoir by Michael Pascoe about his relationship with Jim, his friend since boarding school in Queensland, as he faces up to terminal illness. We see a group of friends as they meet occasionally to talk about their shared youth and their mortality. Eloquent, profound and sometimes funny, as mates can be with one another these encounters, as well as Michael and Jims correspondence about living, dying, memory and family will resonate deeply with readers.?The narrative is also a reflection on the authors own story from son of a country cop to one of Australias best-known journalists, taking the reader on a journey both literal and metaphorical as he drives north in his beloved Alfa Romeo, exploring along the way what it means to be a son and a father, how one ages and deals with ones own mortality.?We were just boys, forming bonds we didnt know existed until we dared reach for them and found them strong.

ISBN: 9781761151019