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y separately published work icon Looking for Dad selected work   short story   autobiography  
Is part of Yarns! series - publisher
Issue Details: First known date: 1998... 1998 Looking for Dad
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Dad and me.
  • Autobiographical stories, based on Bill Marsh's journey back to the places where his father lived and worked.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:ABC Books , 1998 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Barber, Bill Marsh , single work short story humour (p. 50-53)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: ABC Books , 1998 .
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      Extent: 150p.
      Written as: Bill 'Swampy' Marsh
      Note/s:
      • Partial contents indexed. Remainder pending.
      ISBN: 0733306330
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Swampy : Tall Tales and True From Boyhood and Beyond Bill Marsh , Sydney : ABC Books , 2012 18691919 2012 selected work short story 'Charming, funny autobiographical stories from one of Australia's best-loved authors of Australiana. For me, Beckom was one vast playground. From the plover-infested homestead to its dam crawling with yabbies; along the meandering mysteries of the Mirrool Creek; up to the forgotten pine forest; over to the dusty silos of harvest; this was my backyard. I could leave home at sunrise and return ragged at sunset, my heart overflowing with a day of games and adventures. What more does a kid need? In this collection of stories, Bill 'Swampy' Marsh takes us from his childhood in a small outback town in the 1950s and coming of age at an all-boys bush boarding school, to his journey as an adult, when he revisits and reflects on youth by travelling in his father's footsteps through rural Australia.Loveable and eccentric characters are brought to life with humour and affection as we are led through mateship and manhood, cricket and footy, young love and heartbreak, battlers and larrikins, courage and loyalty.these are tales of everyday life in rural Australia. the simple things. the important things ...' 

     (Publication summary)

         Sydney : ABC Books , 2012
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Other Formats

  • Also braille, sound recording.
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