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Enraged bulls in a shed full of bananas, near collisions at sea, whisky-soaked roses on coffins, weapons discharged on Sydney trams, tenacious trouser presses, lost cakes, trade conferences and searches for sewing machine parts - these and so many more incidents, the places they occur and characters that are involved in them are all threads in the tapestries of a life recalled and related in these recollections. As well as a memoir of a full and rich life, the stories in this collection provide glimpses of Australian social history. Not the history of momentous events, great persons (although their author was one) and cultural shifts, but the history than can be found in the odd, the eccentric, the unexpected amidst the on-going demands of the everyday. The voices found in these stories, the voices that tell these stories, are not only that of the author but those of people he met, sometimes only once, people he worked with and, occasionally, people he lived with. They are nearly all Australian voices.
About the Author: Godfrey Alfred Rattigan, CBE, OA, Hon. D. LLB, (1911-2000) was born in the remote goldfields of Western Australia. He joined the Royal Australian Navy as a cadet at the age of thirteen. After leaving the RAN during the Great Depression, he joined the Commonwealth of Australia public service and, in the course of forty years, rose to become one of Australia's most outstanding public servants. His actions while Chairman of the Tariff Board and first Chairman of the Industries Assistance Commission were fundamental to radical changes in the Australian economy in the second half of the 20th century. He was also an inveterate storyteller with an eye and an ear for humorous incidents and comic and eccentric individuals. After his retirement, he wrote an academic history of industry assistance during his time (Industry Assistance: the inside story, Melbourne University Press 1986) and, largely for his own amusement, his own recollections as a series of semi-fictional short stories.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780987171252
  • Publisher: Fastnet Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Fastnet Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 340
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Short Stories by Alf Rattigan
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0987171259
  • Publisher Date: 13 Aug 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 548 gr


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