y separately published work icon Strawberries with Everything : A Polish Odyssey 1966-1974 single work   autobiography   travel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Strawberries with Everything : A Polish Odyssey 1966-1974
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'Strawberries with everything brings a new tone to political memoirs. How did a nice Jewish boy finish up in a place like Poland? In sometimes hilarious detail, Steve Brook describes his early years in prewar London, the emigration of his family to Australia, and his eventual Aussification. While still in his teens he gets a heavy dose of Left politics. After a holiday in Poland, via London, he is offered a job at the Polish Radio in Warsaw. He spends eight years on the wrong side in the Cold War, with a ringside seat at some of the most significant events in European history including the Warsaw Dog Show, the "anti-Zionist" uproar of 1968 and the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia the same year.

He returns to Australia in 1974 and after numerous Candide-like adventures, he finds himself wondering if it was all worthwhile.

Of course it was.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • St Kilda, Caulfield - St Kilda area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Rawprawn , 2005 .
      Extent: viii, 182p.p.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 0646450042

Works about this Work

In Short : Non-Fiction Bruce Elder , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 April 2006; (p. 35)

— Review of Strawberries with Everything : A Polish Odyssey 1966-1974 Steve Brook , 2005 single work autobiography ; Green Power : Environmentalists Who have Changed the Face of Australia Chris Williams , 2006 selected work biography
From Poland with Laughter and Love Aimee Mazza , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 18 November vol. 72 no. 8 2005; (p. 20)

— Review of Strawberries with Everything : A Polish Odyssey 1966-1974 Steve Brook , 2005 single work autobiography
From Poland with Laughter and Love Aimee Mazza , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News , 18 November vol. 72 no. 8 2005; (p. 20)

— Review of Strawberries with Everything : A Polish Odyssey 1966-1974 Steve Brook , 2005 single work autobiography
In Short : Non-Fiction Bruce Elder , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 April 2006; (p. 35)

— Review of Strawberries with Everything : A Polish Odyssey 1966-1974 Steve Brook , 2005 single work autobiography ; Green Power : Environmentalists Who have Changed the Face of Australia Chris Williams , 2006 selected work biography
Last amended 11 Mar 2010 13:12:31
Subjects:
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • c
    Poland,
    c
    Eastern Europe, Europe,
  • 1950s
  • 1960s
  • 1970s
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