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Corey White

There are few voices in comedy as unique and potent as Corey White. Corey’s debut stand up show, The Cane Toad Effect, won Best Show at the 2014 Sydney Fringe and Best Newcomer Award at the 2015 Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Sydney Comedy Festival. He has been profiled on ABC’s Australian Story, was selected to have his show recorded as part of ABC's Comedy Next Gen, and in 2018 his series Roadmap to Paradise finally solved all the world’s problems while continuing to advocate for change for kids stuck in our dysfunctional foster care system.

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Title:

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory

Written by:

Corey White 

Read by:

Corey White 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

7 

Duration:

8 hours  

Published:

July 16 2019 

Available Date:

July 16 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9780655601883 

Genres:

Non-fiction; Australian; Memoirs; Stand Up 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Penguin Audio Australia 

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Shortlisted Australian Book Industry Award / Biography of the Year 2020
Longlisted ABIA Matt Richell Award / New Writer of the Year 2020

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory is a memoir of trauma, evil and survival that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild it, from one of Australia’s brightest young comedians.

Corey White was a golden child. He knew this because his father would hit his mother and his sisters but not him. And his mother adored him so much she let him drop out of primary school. After losing his father to jail and his mother to heroin, though, he became a target for cruelty and dysfunction in foster homes. A scholarship to a prestigious boarding school lifted him out of foster care and awakened a love of learning and reading for him, but this was soon overwhelmed by a crushing depression and drug addiction. Through it all, he kept thinking – sometimes hoping, sometimes fearing – that he was destined for something bigger. Would he find salvation in the halls of a university, or a poetically grimy crack den, or through love? Or would the golden glow that had been in him since childhood ultimately fade, leaving only darkness and ruin?

‘Equal parts hilarious and horrifying, Corey’s story is one of the most powerful I have ever read.’
Wil Anderson

‘Look back in anger. Look around in acceptance. Look forward in love. Harrowing, and yet hopeful.’
Tim Rogers

‘So beautifully written, so important, so absolutely unflinching as it gently takes you by the hand to show you exactly what the difference is between falling and flying.’
Sarah Krasnostein, author of The Trauma Cleaner and The Believer