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Rick Morton Rick Morton i(A149063 works by)
Gender: Male
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y separately published work icon My Year of Living Vulnerably Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2021 20764607 2021 single work autobiography 'This is a book about love.

'In early 2019, Rick Morton, author of acclaimed, bestselling memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt, was diagnosed with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - which, as he says, is just a fancy way of saying that one of the people who should have loved him the most during childhood didn't. 

'So, over the course of twelve months, he went on a journey to rediscover love. To get better. Not cured, not fixed. Just, better. This is a book about his journey to betterness, his year of living vulnerably. It's a book about love. What love is, how we see it, what forms it takes, how we practice it in our lives, what it means to us, and how we really, really can't live without it, even if, like Rick for many years, we think we can.

'As he says: 'People think they want cars, and they will, to get to jobs and appointments in cities and regions where public transport has failed them. But what gets them into those cars, out of the house, out of bed for God's sake, is love.''

Source : publisher's blurb

2022 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year
2022 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year
y separately published work icon One Hundred Years of Dirt Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2018 14214458 2018 single work autobiography

'Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you’ve scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress.

'Violence, treachery and cruelty run through the generational veins of Rick Morton’s family. A horrific accident thrusts his mother and siblings into a world impossible for them to navigate, a life of poverty and drug addiction

'One Hundred Years of Dirt is an unflinching memoir in which the mother is a hero who is never rewarded. It is a meditation on the anger, fear of others and an obsession with real and imagined borders. Yet it is also a testimony to the strength of familial love and endurance. ' (Publication summary)

2019 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Award for Non-Fiction
2019 shortlisted National Biography Award
2019 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2019 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Biography of the Year
2018 longlisted Walkley Award Best Non-Fiction Book
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