RACQ and Ultimo Press are giving members the opportunity to win one of 10 copies of Michael Pascoe’s new book The Summertime of Our Dreams.
In this eloquent and deeply moving memoir, journalist and commentator Michael Pascoe contemplates mortality, family and friendship.
Inspired by the men in his life and his relationships with them, Michael has written a stirring portrait of male friendship.
Through a year-long correspondence with an old schoolmate, Jim McCormack, Michael breaks the surface of the usual pattern of blokes’ conversations to explore what it means to be a good man and the nature of dying, memory and nostalgia for youth.
Interwoven throughout these conversations are journeys from Michael’s own life that capture the love of our fathers and of being a father, the aging process and grappling with one’s own mortality.
“Why did I write this book? Masochism is the easy answer, but love is closer to the truth: to acknowledge and explore the love of my parents and being a father, of old friends, of the country; to keep a promise to share Jim’s lesson in dying, to offer some perspective for our times and time – what we’ve won, what we lose, the ghosts we carry,” Michael said.
“You know, dogs and poems, boyhood and cars, betrayals and scars. Just life and death,
really.”
The Summertime of Our Dreams is an unforgettable celebration of life, fatherhood and friendship.
https://www.racq.com.au/articles/competitions/2022/8/summertime-of-our-dreams-compThe prize is one copy of The Summertime of Our Dreams, valued at $34.99.
Competition ends at 5pm 31 August 2022.
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