Desirelines: An Unusual Family Memoir by Peter Wherrett and Richard Wherrett

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior metalic endpages have slight discolouration. Hand cut paper edge.

Desirelines is an extraordinary shared autobiography that begins with two brothers growing up above their parents' chemist shop in the western suburbs of Sydney in the 1950s.

In this rich and episodic memoir, the authors probe the complex and painful territory of a family life overshadowed by their father's alcoholism and violent mood swings and retrace the divergent courses of their lives since then.

From Sydney's Baby Push and the ephemera of King's Cross, their story traverses burgeoning careers in theatre and motor journalism to a renewed kinship in their parallel fields of show business. (book flap)