Reflections on the Water at Austinmer single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Reflections on the Water at Austinmer
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    y separately published work icon The Memory Pool Therese Spruhan (editor), Kensington : NewSouth Publishing , 2019 17271342 2019 anthology short story autobiography

    'Swimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool – whether it’s an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool – is where they pass summer days. Pools are places of imagination, daring, belonging, freedom, friendship and romance. For some they are places of hard-core swimming training. This delightful, nostalgic anthology brings together reflections and recollections about the swimming pools of childhood from a range of Australians of diverse ages and backgrounds, well known and not-so-famous, including Trent Dalton, Leah Purcell, Shane Gould, Bryan Brown and Merrick Watts.

    'Evocative, funny and sometimes bittersweet, almost 30 people remember the pools that shaped their childhoods. Everyone who has ever dived into their local Olympic pool, bush waterhole or saltwater baths will want to submerge themselves in this beautiful book.'

    Source: Publisher's blurb.

         Kensington : NewSouth Publishing , 2019
Subjects:
  • Austinmer, Wombarra - Bulli area, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales,
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