Apollo and Thelma: A True Tall Tale by Jon Faine
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Apollo and Thelma: A True Tall Tale by Jon Faine

TBM9781743797082
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ISBN: 9781743797082
Author: Jon Faine
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Hardie Grant Books
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 2022
Format: Hard cover
Pages: 384 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at top edge and at spine. Interior and binding are excellent.

In Apollo and Thelma, broadcaster and lawyer Jon Faine shares a yarn that has enthralled him for forty years, taking him from Melbourne's depression-era slums to the isolation of the outback.

Apollo and Thelma have been a constant in Jon Faine's life for decades. As a young lawyer, he was captivated by his favourite client, the Mighty Apollo, a legendary strongman and circus star famous for pulling trams with his teeth and having an elephant stand on him. On the other hand, Apollo's sister, Thelma, ruthless and rugged, had survived decades running solo one of the most remote pubs in the outback until unexpectedly dying, leaving behind a complicated estate.

Befriending Apollo and immersing himself in Thelma's estate, Jon is forced to untangle a long line of astonishing stories and episodes in our distant and recent history that keep intersecting with his own.

Via the circuitous route of these two larger-than-life characters - alongside a supporting cast of characters from the world of politics, law, literature and media - Jon reflects on their stories. He is inevitably forced to rethink his own. (book flap)

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