{"product_id":"the-memory-pool-australian-stories-of-summer-sun-and-swimming-9781742236582","title":"The Memory Pool: Australian stories of summer,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwimming is a central part of most Australian childhoods. We idealise beaches and surf, but for many kids the local pool – whether it’s an ocean, tidal or a chlorinated pool – is where they pass summer days. Pools are places of imagination, daring, belonging, freedom, friendship and romance. For some they are places of hard-core swimming training. This delightful, nostalgic anthology brings together reflections and recollections about the swimming pools of childhood from a range of Australians of diverse ages and backgrounds, well known and not-so-famous – including Trent Dalton, Leah Purcell, Shane Gould, Bryan Brown and Merrick Watts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvocative, funny and sometimes bittersweet, almost 30 people remember the pools that shaped their childhoods. Everyone who has ever dived into their local Olympic pool, bush waterhole or saltwater baths will want to submerge themselves in this beautiful book.\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe Memory Pool\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of 28 personal stories that take thereader into the inner worlds of childhood and teenage years at thelocal pool.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStory-tellers include Bryan Brown, Trent Dalton, Shane Gould, AshleyHay, Daniel Kowalski, Laurie Lawrence, Leah Purcell, Merrick Wattsand many more from locations all over Australia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWill resonate with readers who remember high-diving, sunburn, wettowels and pine-lime splices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJoyful and celebratory but sometimes sad and writers remember thepool as a place of escape from troubled homes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt’s like \u003ci\u003eHumans of New York\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003ePlaces We Swim\u003c\/i\u003e, but inbeautifully written words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTherese Spruhan has interviewed writers, actors, championswimmers, and everyday pool-goers and chapters are presentedseamlessly in their own words\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042154512727,"sku":"9781742236582","price":17.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781742236582.jpg?v=1750953211","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-memory-pool-australian-stories-of-summer-sun-and-swimming-9781742236582","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}