TY - SOUND AU - Keneally,Thomas AU - Allsopp,Warwick ED - Australian Broadcasting Corporation TI - Homebush boy: a memoir SN - 9780655683988 U1 - A823.3 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Tullamarine, Victoria PB - Bolinda Audio KW - Keneally, Thomas. KW - Authors, Australian KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - fast KW - Homebush (N.S.W.) KW - New South Wales KW - Homebush KW - Autobiographies KW - lcgft KW - Audiobooks KW - Biographies KW - rvmgf KW - Livres audio N1 - Read by Warwick Allsopp N2 - In this vivacious memoir, Thomas Keneally conjures up his youthful self at a pivotal period in his life, as a red-haired teenager who idolised Gerald Manley Hopkins, had visions of being a sporting hero, and dreamed of winning the heart of the alluring Bernadette Curran. The one role he did not see himself playing was priest, despite the encouragement of the Brothers at his Catholic school, until Bernadette announced her intention of becoming a nun. Drawing an affectionate portrait of the people who inspired and influenced him, Keneally beautifully captures the agonies and the ecstacies of adolescence ER -