I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses.
Misfits & Me represents a selection of Mandy Sayer's non-fiction writing from the past twenty years. Each essay has been chosen to reflect a different aspect of Mandy's attraction to Australia's misfits and outsiders, from child gangs and hoarders to pensioner drug dealers. Sayer also writes with her inimitable frankness about her unconventional family, her unusual marriage to playwright and author Louis Nowra, and her writing process.
'Mandy Sayer's Misfits & Me is warm and generous, deadly serious and very funny. Sayer is a terrific storyteller and the stories that she is telling us here are vital, surprising and necessary.' Christos Tsiolkas
By:
Mandy Sayer
Imprint: New South Books
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781742236100
ISBN 10: 1742236103
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 October 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Life People Power at the Ponderosa Wild Frontier: The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads The Tincture of Health Flying High: The Rise & Guise of Self-Funded Retirees Girls Gone Wild Elsie Turns 40 The Hordes Love Love & Death in Darlinghurst Sleepless in Samoa A Writer in the Family For the Love of Dog My New Orleans The Gift of Life Goodbye, Porkpie Hat Literature & Art Thea Astley Comes Out of the Shadows Sex, Lies, & Defamation In Ernest: Hemingway & The Art of the Story Satirists of Suburbia Letter to a Young Novelist Shaun Prescott: Modern Misfit
