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Bite Your Tongue
Francesca Rendle-Short
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Description for Bite Your Tongue
Paperback. Num Pages: 246 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 348.
In Francesca Rendle-Short’s family, silence was golden. So to break ranks and tell stories about her peculiar family life and her mother’s moral crusading should send this daughter straight to hell in a ball of smoke and flame along with all those books her mother wanted to burn. Some stories are hard to tell. But like reading, writing stories changes everything. Set in 1970s Queensland and also contemporary times, Bite Your Tongue is an elegant mix of novel and memoir that is in turn harrowing and delightful. It threads together the childhood story of the fictional Glory Solider, with the ... Read more
In Francesca Rendle-Short’s family, silence was golden. So to break ranks and tell stories about her peculiar family life and her mother’s moral crusading should send this daughter straight to hell in a ball of smoke and flame along with all those books her mother wanted to burn. Some stories are hard to tell. But like reading, writing stories changes everything. Set in 1970s Queensland and also contemporary times, Bite Your Tongue is an elegant mix of novel and memoir that is in turn harrowing and delightful. It threads together the childhood story of the fictional Glory Solider, with the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
, Australia
ISBN
9781876756963
SKU
V9781876756963
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-21
About Francesca Rendle-Short
Francesca Rendle-Short is the author of the novel Imago, the novella Big Sister, and co-author with Felicity Packard of the play Us. Her short fictions, photo-essays, exhibition text, and poetry for the page and for the wall, have been published in literary journals and magazines, online and in exhibitions.
Reviews for Bite Your Tongue
"Rendle-Short has created an engaging, unsettling and at times darkly funny account of her childhoodthat will be of interest to those studying literary representations of mother-daughter relationships." - Bronwen Lacken,Kings College London June 2015