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Heydays

A glimpse of Melbourne's Bohemia 1937-1947
  • ISBN-13: 9781923205741
  • Publisher: ETT IMPRINT
    Imprint: IMPRINT CLASSICS
  • By Alister Kershaw
  • Price: AUD $24.95
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: Book will be despatched upon release.
  • Local release date: 01/05/2025
  • Format: Paperback (235.00mm X 155.00mm) 120 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Memoirs [BM]
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Graeme Blundell introduces Kershaw’s “delightful and witty memoir Heydays, a personal record of cultural Melbourne in the thirties and forties. And the pages that follow display a account of the bohemia of his youth and tribute to such friends and mentors as the “exuberant” Max Harris, Adrian Lawlor, whose unique character defied description, and Albert Tucker, “The only intellectual with any brains”… It’s a lovely, disrespectful part of our collective archive, as was Alister Kershaw himself… So, this new publication of Heydays is a rare anthropological treat, transporting us somewhat magically to a city he looks back on in his dotage, “With an affection I was too brash to experience at the time”.
Alister Kershaw (1921-1995), was an Australian poet, writer and broadcaster who lived in France from 1948. He created the hoax poet Mort Brandish before the Ern Malley affair, and wrote about bohemian Melbourne in his celebrated memoir HEYDAYS (ETT Imprint). From the late 1950s to the mid-1960s, Kershaw was Paris correspondent for the ABC, some of which were published in A WORD FROM PARIS.
* A classic account of Melbourne's Bohemia by the precursor of the Ern Malley hoax. * A bestseller in the early 1990s, now into Imprint Classics, with a Forword by Graeme Blundell. * Article in the Australian. * Reviews.
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