Name: the war within
Price: 545.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Tate, Don
ISBN: 9781475920413

Type

Physical Book

Author

Don Tate

Publisher

iUniverse

Language

English

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

23.5 x 19.1 x 2.4 cm

Weight

0.81 kg.

ISBN

1475920415

ISBN13

9781475920413

Synopsis "the war within"

'...a memoir that is at once dramatic, disturbing, sexually charged, and often very funny, but ultimately a moving portrait of a man who has found the inner strength to overcome....' - Paul Ham, international journalist and author This is a complex, virtuoso analysis of an Australian life written by an unabashed and unrepentant author-an acidic dissection of the role that genes and environment have in developing a person's character, as well as a sauntering chronicle of social analysis. In turn, we follow the life of the author as he comes to terms with being a disaffected youth, a patriotic but naive infantryman in the Vietnam War, and an alienated, disabled veteran struggling with male status anxiety-apparently inexhaustible in its capacity to cause suffering. Along the way, Tate examines the dark crevices of the male psyche as he battles inner demons and the unconditional love of his beautiful Christian wife, Carole. Above all, this memoir is a celebration of the human condition and of a man with a can-do, cavalier attitude to life and his desire to rise above mediocrity. An outstanding contribution to Australia's rich heritage of memoir.

Don Tate

(Author)

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Author of numerous award-winning illustrated book biographies and illustrator of over eighty acclaimed commercial and educational books for young people. In addition to writing and illustrating, he presents at elementary schools, reading and writing conferences, literary and book festivals. He is the founder of The Brown Bookshelf, a blog dedicated to promoting youth literature created by Black authors.

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