Fragments of a 50s Childhood by Ron Banks

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners, particularly front cover right tail corner, now protected with book tape.

Ron Banks was fortunate to grow up in Mosman Park when it was mostly a working-class suburb. His memoir unearths the secrets of boyhood happiness (and sometimes girlhood), capturing the times with wit and sharp observational skills.

He began working as a school teacher but soon understood his unsuitability for that profession and switched to the far easier craft of journalism. Fragments is a factual account of sane parenting and growing up for those who were there, and an historical account for those who were not. (back cover)