Holden's Performance

Author: Murray Bail

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Price : 23.95 AUD
ISBN : 9781875847686
Publisher : text
Imprint : text
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Weight (g) : 0.356
Publication date : 01 May 1999
Dimensions : 2.8 Centimeters X 13.2 Centimeters X 19.8 Centimeters
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Author : Murray Bail
Bind : Paperback
Edition : 1
Pages : 374
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Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34.
Model: Australian. No frills.

Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to cinema bouncer to Prime Ministerial bodyguard. Guileless and matter of fact, Holden is fated to follow the flamboyant people around him- ex-Corporal McBee, who zealously woos Holden's mother; his Uncle Vern, a short-sighted proof -reader with a fondness for eating the morning paper with his cereal; and Harriet, the crippled poster artist, whose twists and curves intersect with Holden's unswervingly straight lines...