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Memoir from a Vanished Sydney Sky

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October 2001, no. 235

A Saucepan in the Sky by Brian Nicholls

Hale & Iremonger, $29.95hb, 184pp

Memoir from a Vanished Sydney Sky

by
October 2001, no. 235

How to shape the fiction of one’s life? There is something to be said for the no-nonsense narrative thrust of Errol Flynn in kicking off My Wicked, Wicked Ways, one of the most readable and also self-consciously ‘literary’ of all showbiz autobiographies. ‘Detesting’ books that begin after the fashion of ‘there was joy and happiness in the quaint Tasmanian home of Professor Flynn when the first bellowings of lusty little Errol were heard’, the actor-autobiographer gets straight to what he archly calls ‘the meat of the matter’: his tumultuous film career and the associated carnal exploits that constituted his notoriety.

A Saucepan in the Sky

A Saucepan in the Sky

by Brian Nicholls

Hale & Iremonger, $29.95hb, 184pp

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