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Life without the Boring Bits

Colleen McCullough

9780732294489

Harper Collins


Biography; Autobiography: literary

Hardback

384 pages

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Colleen McCullough has always resisted the idea of writing an autobiography - books on the subject of the self tend to be stuffed to pussy's bow with boring bits. But her mind has a life of its own. Here, finally, is its portrait. Among the personal reminiscences and thought-provoking musings in Life without the Boring Bits lie clues as to the shaping of this extraordinary mind: the confused, impulsive, thoughtlessly cruel mother; the miserly absentee father; the far-reaching effects bureaucrats can have on the lives of strangers; the riddle of Time...Colleen's mind laughs at life. It cries at life. Its memory is phenomenal, its appetite for new knowledge insatiable. And though it holds the secrets to how the books were written, this is a mind that can tell stories against itself and see things that were never there. If Colleen McCullough has any lesson to teach in Life without the Boring Bits, it is that nothing above, below, or on the surface of the Earth can keep a good mind down, let alone break it.

By:   Colleen McCullough
Imprint:   Harper Collins
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 241mm,  Width: 163mm,  Spine: 35mm
Weight:   594g
ISBN:  

9780732294489


ISBN 10:   0732294487
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   November 2011
Audience:   General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Colleen McCullough is the author of Tim, The Thorn Birds and the acclaimed Masters of Rome series.

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