Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Memory PoolCondition: NewDescription: 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, almost 30 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.The Memory Pool is a collection of 28 personal stories that take thereader into the inner worlds of childhood and teenage years at thelocal pool.Story-tellers include Bryan Brown, Trent Dalton, Shane Gould, AshleyHay, Daniel Kowalski, Laurie Lawrence, Leah Purcell, Merrick Wattsand many more from locations all over Australia.Will resonate with readers who remember high-diving, sunburn, wettowels and pine-lime splicesJoyful and celebratory but sometimes sad and writers remember thepool as a place of escape from troubled homesIt’s like Humans of New York meets Places We Swim, but inbeautifully written wordsTherese Spruhan has interviewed writers, actors, championswimmers, and everyday pool-goers and chapters are presentedseamlessly in their own wordsAuthor: Therese SpruhanCountry/Region of Manufacture: AUEAN: 9781742236582Format: PaperbackGenre: Literary CriticismISBN: 9781742236582Item Height: 210mmItem Length: 135mmLanguage: EnglishPublisher: NewSouth PublishingRelease Date: 11/01/2019Subtitle: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimmingRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Country/Region of Manufacture: AU
EAN: 9781742236582
ISBN: 9781742236582
Publication Name: The Memory Pool
Release Date: 11/01/2019
Release Year: 2019
Subtitle: Australian stories of summer, sun and swimming
Title: The Memory Pool
Book Title: Memory Pool : Australian Stories of Summer, Sun and Swimming
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Newsouth Publishing
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2020
Topic: Cultural Heritage, Australian & Oceanian, Essays
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Item Length: 8.2 in
Author: Therese Spruhan
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
