{"product_id":"flesh-wounds-richard-glover-9780733334320","title":"Flesh Wounds","description":"\u003cp\u003eA mother who invented her past, a father who was often absent, a son who wondered if this could really be his family.  Richard Glover's favourite dinner party game is called 'Who's Got the Weirdest Parents?'. It's a game he always thinks he'll win. There was his mother, a deluded snob, who made up large swathes of her past and who ran away with Richard's English teacher, a Tolkien devotee, nudist and stuffed-toy collector. There was his father, a distant alcoholic, who ran through a gamut of wives, yachts and failed dreams. And there was Richard himself, a confused teenager, vulnerable to strange men, trying to find a family he could belong to. As he eventually accepted, the only way to make sense of the present was to go back to the past - but beware of what you might find there. Truth can leave wounds - even if they are only flesh wounds.Part poignant family memoir, part rollicking venture into a 1970s Australia, this is a book for anyone who's wondered if their family is the oddest one on the planet. The answer: 'No'. There is always something stranger out there.PRAISE FOR FLESH WOUNDS'Both poignant and wildly entertaining' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD'A new classic ... a breathtaking accomplishment in style and empathy' - THE AUSTRALIAN'Heartbreaking and hilarious ... I couldn't put it down' - SUN-HERALD'Engrossing and extremely funny' THE SATURDAY PAPER'Not since UNRELIABLE MEMOIRS by Clive James has there been a funnier, more poignant portrait of an Australian childhood.' - AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW'Richard Glover has done the miraculous he's made ordinary family life extraordinarily entertaining' - AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS'Sad, funny, revealing, optimistic and hopeful' - Jeanette Winterson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Glover","offers":[{"title":"Fair","offer_id":46374228066547,"sku":"8880002829784","price":7.5,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780733334320.jpg?v=1730488723","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/flesh-wounds-richard-glover-9780733334320","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}