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Holden's Performance

Holden's Performance

by Murray Bail
Paperback
Publication Date: 28/12/2000

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Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34.
Model: Australian. No frills.

Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to cinema bouncer to Prime Ministerial bodyguard. Guileless and matter of fact, Holden is fated to follow the flamboyant people around him- ex-Corporal McBee, who zealously woos Holden's mother; his Uncle Vern, a short-sighted proof -reader with a fondness for eating the morning paper with his cereal; and Harriet, the crippled poster artist, whose twists and curves intersect with Holden's unswervingly straight lines...
ISBN:
9781860465925
9781860465925
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
28-12-2000
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
384
Dimensions (mm):
196x127x22mm
Weight:
0.33kg
Murray Bail

Murray Bail lives in Sydney. His first book, The Drover's Wife and Other Stories, was published in 1975. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. 

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