The Country Undertaker: Reminiscences of a Bush Life by Jim Eames
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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781741145809
Author: Jim Eames
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Place: Crows Nest NSW
Year: 2005
Format: Paperback
Pages: 420 pages
Period: 20th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Scratch to lower back cover near spine. Previous owner has signed inside page. Pages are sunned.
A rich and generously told reminiscence about growing up in the Australian bush of the 1950s, and the eccentric life of Mick Eames, the country undertaker.
When Mick Eames, footballer and spare parts man, moved his family to Holbrook in the 1940s, he had no idea that the job of town undertaker would fall his way.
Instead of immaculately attired attendants and battery-operated lowering devices of the city, Mick Eames' lot was much simpler. He had a hearse that wouldn't start, a couple of four-by-twos and a rather unlikely assortment of funeral assistants, including Kelly O'Brien, the very sociable gravedigger who was known to sleep in the job.
Written with great warmth and gentle humour, The Country Undertaker is as poignant as it is funny. There are no big names or great moments in history; rather a wonderful assortment of bush stories and a whole cast of supporting eccentrics (including the matriarch who insisted her prize bull be chief mourner at her funeral), leaving you quietly nostalgic for an Australia long past. (back cover)
The Country Undertaker: Reminiscences of a Bush Life by Jim Eames
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