Description
Book Synopsis“I fell in love with my first misfit at the age of three. He was a disabled man in a wheelchair who sold newspapers every afternoon outside the Empire Hotel in Annandale. Whenever I glimpsed him in the distance I would break into a run, jump onto his lap, and smother him with kisses.”
Misfits and Me represents a selection of Mandy Sayer’s non-fiction writing from the past twenty years. Each essay has been chosen to reflect a different aspect of Mandy’s attraction to Australia’s misfits and outsiders, with those who live in the shadows of our society.
Table of Contents
- Life
- People Power at the Ponderosa
- Wild Frontier: The Child Gangs of Tweed Heads
- The Tincture of Health
- Flying High: The Rise & Guise of Self-Funded Retirees
- Girls Gone Wild
- Elsie Turns 40
- The Hordes
- Love
- Love & Death in Darlinghurst
- Sleepless in Samoa
- A Writer in the Family
- For the Love of Dog
- My New Orleans
- The Gift of Life
- Goodbye, Porkpie Hat
- Literature & Art
- Thea Astley Comes Out of the Shadows
- Sex, Lies, & Defamation
- In Ernest: Hemingway & The Art of the Story
- Satirists of Suburbia
- Letter to a Young Novelist
- Shaun Prescott: Modern Misfit
