Up We Grew. Stories Of Australian Childhoods

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUB
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 248 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and a crease to cover present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: In Up We Grew, award-winning journalist Pamela Bone provides a remarkable insight into how we are tempered and transformed by the process of growing up.Bones voice has definition in an ocean of mediocre peers. Weekend AustralianUp We Grew is a reflective, whimsical book full of personal memories, both sweet and sour...Bone offers a deliciously colourful patchwork of memories carefully chosen and beautifully written. Her vivid pictures come easily to life. The Age Bone has the journalists sense of looking beneath the veneer of what childhood appears to be, to see what is really going on. Sunday TasmanianResilience. Why do some children in difficult circumstances seem blessed with it, while others struggle to cope with life And are Australian children generally less resilient than they used to beIn Up We Grew, award-winning journalist Pamela Bone explores the Australian childhood through the prism of her own experience as a daughter, a sister and a mother.Taking as her starting point her own story of growing up in a small town on the Murray River after the war, Bone illuminates the influences that shape us from early life- family, friendships, school. Through interviews with Helen Coonan, Max Gillies, Terry Lane, Mark Latham, Michael Leunig, Joanna Murray-Smith and Natasha Stott Despoja, she considers how some famous and less well-known Australians coped with the death of a parent, divorce, difference, talent, opportunity, money, or the lack thereof.Richly researched and vividly written, by turns nostalgic and unblinkingly sentimental, Up We Grew provides remarkable insight into how we are tempered and transformed by our childhood.

ISBN: 9780522851182