| Description |
xi, 335 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Alzheimer remembers -- Ghostly golfers -- Licking the beaters -- The master builder -- Weatherboard swastikas -- Wilf -- Hats and glads -- Dirty hair -- Shithouse spaghetti -- Russian salad days -- Shellac smashing -- The birth of Edna [Everage] -- Sinny -- Bunyip -- Raspberry ripple -- A nice night's entertainment -- Ruth -- Spiked -- Boudoir fingers -- Paint over rust -- Don't wake me for cocktails -- Rest for the wicked -- Talking back -- Asides / Colin Munro, Bruce Grant, C.K. Stead, Patrick White, John Betjeman, Julian Jebb |
| Summary |
An account of his life up to the present. He tells with candour of his schooldays, his troubled Australian adolescence, his creation of Dame Edna Everage |
| Analysis |
HUMPHRIES, BARRY |
| Notes |
Ill. on endpapers |
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Also issued online |
| Subject |
Humphries, Barry, 1934-
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Humphries, Barry.
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Actors -- Australia -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Comedians -- Australia -- Biography.
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Entertainers -- Australia -- Biography.
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Humorists, Australian -- Biography.
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Female impersonators -- 20th century -- Biography.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| LC no. |
93206181 |
| ISBN |
0670840084 |
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