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Issue Details: First known date: 2002... 2002 The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir
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'A family memoir charting the political and social changes of Aborigines over the past 40 years. Stan Grant was born in 1963 into the Wiradjuri people - a tribe of warriors who occupied the vast territory of central and southwestern New South Wales. For 100 years the Wiradjuri waged a war against European invasion and settlement. This war has largely been ignored by historians and politicians but will be burnt into the hearts and minds of the Wiradjuri forever. By the time Grant was born, the war against invasion had largely been lost and remnants of the Wiradjuri were scattered among mission camps and the fringes of rural towns. Then the Wiradjuri people found themselves waging a new war - this time against alcoholism, poverty, abuse and neglect. It was against this backdrop that the Grant family waged its very own struggle: a life-and-death battle for survival.' (Source: publisher's website)

Exhibitions

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2002 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 271p.
      Description: illus., ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography
      • 2003 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards entrant.
      ISBN: 0732271533
    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2004 .
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      Extent: 303p.
      Description: illus., ports
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliography
      ISBN: 0732271525 (pbk), 9780732271527 (pbk)
    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2023 .
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      Extent: 320p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 15th July 2023
      ISBN: 9781460765326

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

The Gospel of Stan Grant : Questions of History and Identity 2021 single work
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 432 2021; (p. 7-9)

'Let’s start with a portrait. The year is 1993. The book is My Kind of People. Its author is Wayne Coolwell, a journalist. Who are Coolwell’s kind of people? Ernie Dingo, for one. Sandra Eades. Noel Pearson. Archie Roach. And there, sandwiched between opera singer Maroochy Barambah and dancer Linda Bonson is Stan Grant, aged thirty. Circa 1993, Grant is a breakthrough television presenter and journalist whose mother remembers him coming home to read the newspaper while the other kids went to play footy. ‘[T]here was a maturity and a sense of order about him,’ Coolwell writes. The order belies his parents’ life of ‘tin humpies, dirt floors, and usually only the one bed for all the kids in the family’. They are unable to afford a football (Grant relies on rolled-up socks). His sister, one of three siblings, sleeps on a fold-out table. In one house, they have to chase away a group of occupying emus before they can move in.' (Introduction)

Narrative Lives and Human Rights : Stolen Generation Narratives and the Ethics of Recognition Kay Schaffer , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 3 no. 2004; (p. 5-25)
Indigenous Life Stories Jennifer Jones , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 209-218)
Australia's Darker History Angela Mrazek , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , August vol. 4 no. 1 2003;

— Review of The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Stan Grant , 2002 single work autobiography
[Review] The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Tony Smith , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 191-192) JAS Review of Books , August no. 8 2002;

— Review of The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Stan Grant , 2002 single work autobiography
[Review] The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Tony Smith , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 73 2002; (p. 191-192) JAS Review of Books , August no. 8 2002;

— Review of The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Stan Grant , 2002 single work autobiography
Australia's Darker History Angela Mrazek , 2003 single work review
— Appears in: Dotlit : The Online Journal of Creative Writing , August vol. 4 no. 1 2003;

— Review of The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Stan Grant , 2002 single work autobiography
Between Loss and a Comfortable Place Sonya Voumard , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 June 2002; (p. 12)

— Review of The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Stan Grant , 2002 single work autobiography
Confessions of a Lost Cause Tony Maniaty , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 15-16 June 2002; (p. 8-9)

— Review of The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Stan Grant , 2002 single work autobiography
Stan, by Your Man Darrin Farrant , 2002 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 30 June 2002; (p. 8)

— Review of The Tears of Strangers : A Memoir Stan Grant , 2002 single work autobiography
Indigenous Life Stories Jennifer Jones , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Life Writing , vol. 1 no. 2 2004; (p. 209-218)
Narrative Lives and Human Rights : Stolen Generation Narratives and the Ethics of Recognition Kay Schaffer , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 3 no. 2004; (p. 5-25)
Black and Whiteness Paul Lloyd , 2002 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 June 2002; (p. 17)
A Matter of Identity Jodie Patterson (interviewer), 2002 single work interview
— Appears in: Koori Mail , 10 July no. 280 2002; (p. 19)
The Gospel of Stan Grant : Questions of History and Identity 2021 single work
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 432 2021; (p. 7-9)

'Let’s start with a portrait. The year is 1993. The book is My Kind of People. Its author is Wayne Coolwell, a journalist. Who are Coolwell’s kind of people? Ernie Dingo, for one. Sandra Eades. Noel Pearson. Archie Roach. And there, sandwiched between opera singer Maroochy Barambah and dancer Linda Bonson is Stan Grant, aged thirty. Circa 1993, Grant is a breakthrough television presenter and journalist whose mother remembers him coming home to read the newspaper while the other kids went to play footy. ‘[T]here was a maturity and a sense of order about him,’ Coolwell writes. The order belies his parents’ life of ‘tin humpies, dirt floors, and usually only the one bed for all the kids in the family’. They are unable to afford a football (Grant relies on rolled-up socks). His sister, one of three siblings, sleeps on a fold-out table. In one house, they have to chase away a group of occupying emus before they can move in.' (Introduction)

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