{"product_id":"flesh-wounds-book-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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRichard 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Both poignant and wildly entertaining' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A new classic ... a breathtaking accomplishment in style and empathy' - THE AUSTRALIAN\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Heartbreaking and hilarious ... I couldn't put it down' - SUN-HERALD\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Engrossing and extremely funny' THE SATURDAY PAPER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Not since UNRELIABLE MEMOIRS by Clive James has there been a funnier, more poignant portrait of an Australian childhood.' - AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Richard Glover has done the miraculous he's made ordinary family life extraordinarily entertaining' - AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Sad, funny, revealing, optimistic and hopeful' - Jeanette Winterson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49656366989585,"sku":"GOR013473693","price":15.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49869584105745,"sku":"GOR009460261","price":21.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50492836970769,"sku":"CIN0733334326G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0733334326.jpg?v=1750977719","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/flesh-wounds-book-richard-glover-9780733334320","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}