Precious Bodily Fluids: 1961. A boy. A pub. And the great fluoride debate
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Precious Bodily Fluids: 1961. A boy. A pub. And the great fluoride debate
By (Author) Charles Waterstreet
Hachette Australia
Hodder Headline Australia
1st September 2008
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
791.430233/092
Physical Properties
Paperback
262
Width 131mm, Height 199mm, Spine 20mm
240g
Description
It's 1961 and deep in the Australian outback, the country town of Albury is about to go to war with itself. Putting fluoride in the water supply isn't exactly a straightforward proposition - in fact, it's a secret ploy by the communists to poison the townsfolk's precious bodily fluids. Or is it Seen through the eyes of mischievous 11-year-old schoolboy Charles, PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS is a hysterically funny childhood memoir that vividly evokes a certain time, place and way of life that is now lost forever ...
Reviews
Charles is a country boy at heart...he brilliantly and hilariously captures the humour, tragedy and poignancy of what it was like to be a young boy growing up in rural Australia. It's an honest, vibrant account of an 11-year-old enjoying the final freedoms of his boyhood within the confines of a small Aussie country town in the early '60s. - Woman's Day There really is one book you should read to make you laugh, chuckle and think about what it was really like to grow up surrounded by Catholicism. Yes, Charles Waterstreet has penned the tome for you! Most nights I'd get home and couldn't put it down before smiling all the way to noddyland. - Sunday Telegraph Charles Waterstreet ... has tackled something very difficult-writing a childhood memoir from the perspective of a child but using the wisdom of hindsight and a more or less hybrid child/adult vocabulary-and brought it off...Waterstreet achieves a nice balance and blend of the comic and the sociological which makes the book readable and likeable...a well-written, well-organised and highly amusing book. - Peter Corris Delightful...crammed with extraordinary characters, familiar incidents, comedy, tragedy and a quintessential larrikinism - Sunday Life
Author Bio
Charles Waterstreet is an author, barrister and filmmaker. He has written two memoirs, PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS and REPEATING THE LEAVING, numerous legal publications, produced two films, is a columnist for THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD and is one of the co-creators of the ABC Television series RAKE.
