Swimming to the Moon

Description

From a floury encounter on a baker's work table to the art of sitting backwards on chairs, from budgie training to spontaneous human combustion, this collection showcases the non-fiction writing of one of Australia's best-loved authors. These pieces encompass suburban portraits and coastal living, affectionate nostalgia and the absurdity of the everyday. They are endearing and often hilarious snapshots of Australian life from a master novelist who has turned the column into an artform.

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"Full of incident, oddity, humanity, and poetry. . . . This is in the true sense a delightful book." --Thomas Keneally, author, Schindler's Ark, on The Drowner "A beautifully crafted book. It switches effortlessly between travel literature, reportage, local history, nature writing, and film and literature criticism. . . . This dazzling memoir is a perfectly integrated work of art. Drewe's literary instincts are as impeccable as his ear for the English language is unfaltering, and his latest memoir has all the more force for being set down with such a delicate hand." --Australian on Montebello "At heart a moving and profound love story. This is a splendid memoir with many moods--delicate, tough, ironic, compassionate--that are beautifully controlled and paced." --Australian Book Review on Montebello