My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm
winner of the 2023 prime minister's literary award for nonfiction
$29.97
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2023
Summary
Grit and Shit: A Millennial’s Unexpected Farm Life
A moving and hilarious fish-out-of-water memoir of a millennial leaving his inner-city life to work on the family farm.
Sam Vincent is a twenty-something writer living in the inner suburbs, scrabbling to make ends meet, when he gets a call from his mother- his father has stuck his hand in a woodchipper, but ‘not to worry - it wasn’t like that scene in Fargo or anything’. When Sam returns to the family farm to help out, his l…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760644840 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760644846 |
| Author: | Sam Vincent |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | Black Inc. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 136mm x 21mm |
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About The Author
Sam Vincent
Sam Vincent’s writing has appeared in The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Griffith Review and The Best Australian Essays. His first book, Blood and Guts, was longlisted for the Walkley Book Award and in 2019 he won the Walkley Award for longform feature writing. He runs a cattle and fig farm in the Yass Valley, NSW, and supplies fruit to some of the best restaurants in the Canberra region. His recent memoir is My Father and Other Animals.
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