Scoundrel Days: A Memoir by Brentley Frazer

Scoundrel Days: A Memoir by Brentley Frazer

Tom Sawyer on acid, a 21st-century On the Road, a Holden Caulfield for punks . an extraordinary memoir of a wild adolescence, told in a compelling, poetic voice. In Scoundrel Days Brentley Frazer tells the story of his youth - wild, disillusioned, impassioned and desolate. Born into a Christian cult in outback Queensland, Frazer escapes through literature and poetry, drugs and violence, sex and alcohol; and his ensuing rejection of religion, authority and the 'way things are' leads to adventures, desperation and, just possibly, redemption. Beautifully written and urgently told, Scoundrel Days is a visceral, compelling assault on the senses. An at times brutal story articulated with a poet's sensibility, it portrays a walker of edges exploring the dark side while searching for the love essential to build a soul.

Brentley Frazer is an Australian author whose poems, prose and academic papers have been published in numerous national and international anthologies, journals, magazines and other periodicals since 1992. He holds an MA (writing) from James Cook University and authored Scoundrel Days as part of a submission for a PhD in creative writing at Griffith University. He is also a lecturer at Griffith University and the editor-in-chief of Bareknuckle Poet Journal of Letters.

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ISBN 13	9780702259562
ISBN 10	070225956X
Title	Scoundrel Days: A Memoir
Author	Brentley Frazer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Queensland Press
Year published	2017-02-27
Number of pages	312
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