Skip to main content
Thumbnail for Anything can happen
New!

Anything can happen

Hampton, Susanne2024
Books, Manuscripts
Warm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful, Anything Can Happen is a memoir from one of Australia's literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. It keeps in play so many things: irony and spirituality, a slice of social history of Sydney's inner west, a farm in Victoria, a lesbian subculture, Mardi Gras, the literary pleasures of teaching writing. Juxtaposition is her gift, as is the very natural speaking voice. With the eye of a poet, and the dry drollery of someone who has experienced it all, straight and married, gay and married, mother, friend, lover, writer, this is a raw and powerful account of a life lived fully.
Main title:
Anything can happen / by Susan Hampton.
Imprint:
Waratah, NSW : Puncher and Wattmann, 2024.
Collation:
281 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
NightAnnandale and BlacktownBirdThe gardener and the radiographerThe farmTommy Part 1Canberra and SloveniaTommy Part 2Davo.
ISBN:
9781923099012 (paperback)
Dewey class:
HAMP
Language:
English
BRN:
530173
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
PenrithNonfictionBIO HAMPAvailable
View my active saved list
0 items in my active saved list