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'From one of Australia’s favourite actors comes a classic memoir of an Australian childhood in the sixties. Young Steve was a larrikin, happy-go-lucky, resilient kid, coming of age in a simpler time. Growing up on a farm cut from virgin scrub at the end of a lake, a farm called Stillways, Steve daydreamed about cars and escape. His story is about him hero-worshipping his older brother with Brylcreem in his hair; going to school as a young kid with bus money knotted into a hanky and clutching his Globite schoolcase; fighting bullies at school and dreaming about girls; being amazed at the first television in town; remembering where he was when Marilyn Monroe died... But there’s a darker thread running through the story: the father who’d take out his frustrations by savagely belting his young children; a struggling mother who’d do anything to protect her kids; a young boy irrevocably marked by his father’s anger.
'Endearing, funny, honest and unflinching–this memoir will become an Australian classic. ' (Publisher's blurb)
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Dedication: For Krissie
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Actor Joins Shortlist for Book Award
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 July 2014; (p. 20) -
Review : Stillways: A Memoir
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , December/January 2013; (p. 55)
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 August 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography ; His Stupid Boyhood : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography -
Portrait of the Actors as Youths
Different Strokes for Different Folks
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 September 2013; (p. 35) The Age , 14 September 2013; The Canberra Times , 14 September 2013;
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography ; Shane Jacobson : The Long Road to Overnight Success 2013 single work autobiography -
Fruitful Crop of Memories from Actor's Bush Boyhood
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 August 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography
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Home Truths
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13-14 July 2013; (p. 8-9)
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography -
Memories Cut Deeply
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 1 August 2013; (p. 52)
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography -
Fruitful Crop of Memories from Actor's Bush Boyhood
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 17-18 August 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography -
Portrait of the Actors as Youths
Different Strokes for Different Folks
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 September 2013; (p. 35) The Age , 14 September 2013; The Canberra Times , 14 September 2013;
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography ; Shane Jacobson : The Long Road to Overnight Success 2013 single work autobiography -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 August 2013; (p. 22)
— Review of Stillways : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography ; His Stupid Boyhood : A Memoir 2013 single work autobiography -
Actor Joins Shortlist for Book Award
2014
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 July 2014; (p. 20)
Awards
- 2014 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Non-Fiction Book Award
- 2014 shortlisted National Biography Award
- 2014 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
- Budgewoi Lake - Lake Munmorah area, Central Coast, New South Wales,
- 1950-1979