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Memoir

Review: Andrew Riemeron Peter Goldsworthy
  • His Stupid Boyhood: A Memoir by Peter Goldsworthy
  • His Stupid Boyhood: A Memoir by Peter Goldsworthy Hamish Hamilton
    264pp
    $29.99 AU
    Published August, 2013
    ISBN 9781926428505

Same diff: His Stupid Boyhood: A Memoir by Peter Goldsworthy

His Stupid Boyhood is a memoir of the first eighteen years of Goldsworthy’s life and it shares several characteristics of his fiction. It also incorporates some striking poems, perhaps the best writing the book has to offer.

Sep. 2013 • Australian literature • Memoir • Non-fiction

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