Corey White Corey White i(15633921 works by)
Gender: Male
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Corey White is a stand-up comedian and writer.

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y separately published work icon The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory Melbourne : Hamish Hamilton , 2019 15634738 2019 single work autobiography

'Corey White was a golden child. He knew this because his father would hit his mother and his sisters but not him. And his mother adored him so much she let him drop out of primary school.

'After losing his father to jail and his mother to heroin, though, he became a target for cruelty and dysfunction in foster homes. A scholarship to a prestigious boarding school lifted him out of foster care and awakened a love of learning and reading for him, but this was soon overwhelmed by a crushing depression and drug addiction.

'Through it all, he kept thinking - sometimes hoping, sometimes fearing - that he was destined for something bigger. Would he find salvation in the halls of a university, or a poetically grimy crack den, or through love? Or would the golden glow that had been in him since childhood ultimately fade, leaving only darkness and ruin?

'The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory is a memoir of trauma and survival that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild it. It is a powerful, lyrical and darkly funny debut from one of Australia's brightest young comedians.'  (Publication summary)

2021 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Autobiography / Biography / Memoir designed by Adam Laszczuk
2020 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2020 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Biography of the Year
2020 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Autobiography / Biography / Memoir
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