Happy Friday Traces readers! Welcome back to our weekly Friday Book Giveaway!
This week's spotlight book is 'Out of Copley Street' written by Geoff Goodfellow, all thanks to our friends at Wakefield Press.
Australian literary icon Geoff Goodfellow is renowned for his brutally evocative poetry: famously performed on building sites, at factories and jails, and in mental institutions, as well as the traditional schools and literary festivals. Martin Flanagan says he reads 'like an angry red nerve'.
But this playful, tender, richly realised childhood memoir - his first prose collection - reveals the vulnerable side of the working-class boy from Copley Street. Growing up in Adelaide's inner-northern suburbs, Geoff inherits a quick mind and quicksilver tongue from his father, a tender but troubled war veteran (and talented glassblower) who struggled with alcoholism. Geoff's dad teaches him to make things with his hands, staunch loyalty to family, to charm and cajole - and perhaps most enduringly, to tell stories.
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https://www.facebook.com/TracesMag/photos/a.262237540469159/5267446776614852/Entries close Monday 26 October 5pm AEST. Australian entrants only. Winner will be announced via Facebook on Wednesday 28 October.
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