Friday, 13 January 2017

Billarooby By Jim Anderson

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Title:Billarooby
Author:Jim Anderson
Format:Paperback
Page:321 pages
ISBN:0671680390

Drought and a Japanese prisoner of war camp force a father and son to confront the bitter secrets of the past Nancy Pearl


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Jim Anderson has always been pulled towards both the literary and the visual arts He graduated as a lawyer from Sydney University in 1961, but says he can t remember anything he learned He discovered bohemia and frequented the Sydney Push in the late 1950 s and was soon caught up in Sydney s counter culture Where Have All the Flowers Gone, his roman a clef based on those experiences, remains un Jim Anderson has always been pulled towards both the literary and the visual arts He graduated as a lawyer from Sydney University in 1961, but says he can t remember anything he learned He discovered bohemia and frequented the Sydney Push in the late 1950 s and was soon caught up in Sydney s counter culture Where Have All the Flowers Gone, his roman a clef based on those experiences, remains unpublished.He became Art Editor of Oz Magazine in the UK in time to be put in the dock as a conspirator in the famous 1971 Obscenity trial at London s Old Bailey After the demise of Oz in 1973, he spent 20 years in the US where, as well as engaging in various hippie excesses, he edited the Monday edition of The Bolinas Hearsay News, for which he also designed front covers and wrote a column on the previous week s events During that period he also worked as amanuensis for writer Charles Fox The Noble Enemy, Portrait in Oil and had a novel of his own published, Billarooby 1988 , a wartime story set in the Australian outback Billarooby received international rave reviews.Since returning to Sydney in 1993, Jim has continued his editing, writing and photo artist careers and still plays an active role in the cultural activities of the GLBT community Anti establishment satire has remained a focus Exhibitions of his art include a major retrospective, Lampoon, an historical art trajectory 2011 at the University of Sydney s Tin Sheds Gallery The artwork exhibited and a brief memoir were published and copies can be obtained from the author



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Drought and a Japanese prisoner of war camp force a father and son to confront the bitter secrets of the past Nancy Pearl
Billarooby
321 pagesJim Anderson

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