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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 My Father and Other Animals : How I Took on the Family Farm
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'A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to take over the family farm.

'Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother: his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ‘not to worry – it wasn’t like that scene in Fargo or anything’. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, his life takes a new and unexpected direction.

'Whether castrating a calf or buying a bull – or knocking in a hundred fence posts by hand when his dad hides the post-driver – Sam’s farming apprenticeship is an education in grit and shit. But there are victories, too: nurturing a fig orchard to bloom; learning to read the land; joining forces with Indigenous elders to protect a special site. Slowly, Sam finds himself thinking differently about the farm, about his father and about his relationship with both.

'By turns affecting, hilarious and utterly surprising, this memoir melds humour and fierce honesty in an unsentimental love letter. It’s about belonging, humility and regeneration – of land, family and culture. What passes from father to son on this unruly patch of earth is more than a livelihood; it is a legacy.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2022 .
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      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 2 Aug 2022
      ISBN: 9781760640439
    • Collingwood, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Inc. , 2023 .
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      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published 29 August 2023

      ISBN: 9781760644840

Works about this Work

City Mouse, Country Mouse James Ley , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , December 2022;

— Review of My Father and Other Animals : How I Took on the Family Farm Sam Vincent , 2022 single work autobiography ; Growing Up in Country Australia 2022 anthology autobiography
City Mouse, Country Mouse James Ley , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , December 2022;

— Review of My Father and Other Animals : How I Took on the Family Farm Sam Vincent , 2022 single work autobiography ; Growing Up in Country Australia 2022 anthology autobiography
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