- Title:
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Home Truths: A Memoir
- Written by:
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David Williamson
- Read by:
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David Williamson
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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14
- Duration:
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16 hours 53 minutes
- Published:
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September 01 2022
- Available Date:
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September 01 2022
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781460743737
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; Autobiography; Memoirs; Writer
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/HarperCollins audio
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Price
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Australian author
Shortlisted National Biography Award / Autobiography/Biography
The definitive memoir of David Williamson, one of Australia's best known and most widely performed playwrights and one of the country's leading screenwriters.
After five decades of chronicling the blunders, mishaps and messes that he and his fellow Australians got themselves into, David Williamson has penned his long-awaited memoir, Home Truths.
It reveals the story of the man behind the work: how a childhood defined by marital discord sparked a lifelong fascination with the power of drama to explore emotional conflict, how a mechanical engineering student became our most successful playwright, the anxiety that plagued him as he crafted his plays, the joy of connecting with an audience and the enduring sting of the critics, and the great love story that defined his personal life.
Williamson also writes about the plethora of odd, interesting, caustic and brilliant people who have intersected with his life and work: from a young Jacki Weaver and Chris Haywood in the first Sydney production of The Removalists in 1971 to Nicole Kidman on the brink of stardom in the 1988 feature film of Emerald City and lively dinners with political powerhouse Paul Keating.
'Australia's most enduringly popular social comedy writer … keenly observant and satirical.'
The Sydney Morning Herald
'Williamson always keeps us engaged … his words weave a spellbinding course … testament to the power of [his] language.'
The Daily Telegraph
'Our greatest dramatic entertainer.'
Financial Review