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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Good. Photographic (illustrator). First Edition. acknowledgements and index. The text is illustrated with two inserts, of eight pages each, of black-and-white photography. Photographic paperback binding with black and gold coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the back strip. Black-and-white photograph of author to the rear panel. Autobiography of the author, who died from AIDS related illness in 1997. But before that occurred he was a journalist, biographer, political bisexual he worked for both the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Liberal party and, above all, a gay rights activist. Rubbing of the book corners and edges with some marks to the top edge of the front panel. Browning of the text block edges and pages and the rear panel has started to curl. Original bookseller's sticker still in situ. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [10], 358 pages, Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; Gay & Lesbian. ISBN: 0330360019. ISBN/EAN: 9780330360012. Inventory No: 0280151. Seller Inventory # 0280151
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. "An incisive, provocative and witty chronicle spanning five decades of Australian politics, journalism, gay activism and the arts, 'Screw loose' is a unique autobiography by one of this country's more controversial larrikin figures. Ex Scotch boy, biographer of Bolte, and discoverer of 'The secret diary of Jeffrey Kennett (aged 45 1/4)', Peter Blazey recalls many episodes of sex and romance as a hormonal young man in the painfully conservative middle-class suburbs of fifties Melbourne. 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), portraits (black and white) ; 20 cm. Book. Seller Inventory # 032026