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January 27, 2005
Brunswick, Not Revisited
Les Terry can't bring himself to revisit Brunswick, the Melbourne locale of his early childhood, as he finds that he would "prefer not to cross into that suburb".
Terry has recently released a memoir of his time growing up in a poor (as it was then) inner-city suburb, titled The Remarkable Resurrection of Lazaros X, which details the hardships he endured while growing up in the 50s and 60s. He probably wouldn't recognise the place now.
Posted by larrikin at January 27, 2005 07:22 PM
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A friend of mine who works at Victoria University, and I assume knows Les Terry in connection to the Freud museum, had an advance copy of this book on his bedside table on New Years Eve. I picked it up, and because I hadn't heard of it, assumed that it was another of those books that surfaces briefly and sinks without trace. Ah, not so! I saw the piece in the Age that you cited, and noticed that it's been reviewed in a few other places too.
I wish I'd looked at it a bit more carefully now!!
Janine
Posted by: Janine at January 28, 2005 02:29 PM