{"product_id":"9781923099012","title":"Anything Can Happen","description":"Author: Susan Hampton\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781923099012\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Puncher and Wattmann\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 01 Feb 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 150\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2025, Non-Fiction**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarm and wry, mixing high culture and suburban realism, the laconic and the artful, \u003ci\u003eAnything Can Happen\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir from one of Australia's literary trailblazers. Funny, heartbreaking, it has exactly the arc of a good story, with a theme about storytelling and lies and how truth and memory are complex. It keeps in play so many things: irony and spirituality, a slice of social history of Sydney's inner west, a farm in Victoria, a lesbian subculture, Mardi Gras, the literary pleasures of teaching writing. Juxtaposition is her gift, as is the very natural speaking voice. With the eye of a poet, and the dry drollery of someone who has experienced it all, straight and married, gay and married, mother, friend, lover, writer, this is a raw and powerful account of a life lived fully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I love this memoir - it's the sort of writing Hampton excels at. There's no-one else I know who can hit that dry, droll, edgy note and conjure place and time and character and the random nature of memory and story-telling.'  Kim Mahood\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Alive and compelling, and served up in perfect mouthfuls, like an antipasto plate . . . Honesty, great sentences, good flow. Surprises, escalation, energy, digression and return, causation.'  Gail Bell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46867065864350,"sku":"ADS-9781923099012","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781923099012.jpg?v=1779429158","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781923099012","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}