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Willem van Ravenstein
Perth : Hesperian Press , 2010 .
First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. viii, 213 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
“For the ten-year old Dutch boy who arrived with his migrant parents at Fremantle one intolerably hot day in 1950, Australia was an alien, almost incomprehensible land. A clear-eyed observer with an outsiders perspective, the child grew up and was educated in postwar Perth, where he was gradually transformed into an Australian. The experience was a complex, testing and sometimes confusing process. Like teenagers everywhere, young Willem asserted his identity in opposition to his parents and their values. As the only child of a disciplinarian father, this was a particularly bitter struggle. There was, too, a growing awareness that the heart of his familys life was gnawed by an obscure mystery — something eventually revealed to be a very dark secret indeed. This wise, lucid coming of age memoir has much to say about Australia as it was then, and how it became what it is now. It is one of those rare, timeless works that shall continue to speak across the generations.” (publisher’s blurb)
. Fine Condition.
All Australians Now
First Edition.
24cm x 16cm. viii, 213 pages. Pictorial wrappers.
“For the ten-year old Dutch boy who arrived with his migrant parents at Fremantle one intolerably hot day in 1950, Australia was an alien, almost incomprehensible land. A clear-eyed observer with an outsiders perspective, the child grew up and was educated in postwar Perth, where he was gradually transformed into an Australian. The experience was a complex, testing and sometimes confusing process. Like teenagers everywhere, young Willem asserted his identity in opposition to his parents and their values. As the only child of a disciplinarian father, this was a particularly bitter struggle. There was, too, a growing awareness that the heart of his familys life was gnawed by an obscure mystery — something eventually revealed to be a very dark secret indeed. This wise, lucid coming of age memoir has much to say about Australia as it was then, and how it became what it is now. It is one of those rare, timeless works that shall continue to speak across the generations.” (publisher’s blurb)
. Fine Condition.
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SKU: 0021848
Categories: Australia, Australian Stories, Biography & Autobiography, Countries, Western Australia