Hibberd, Jack. Memoirs of an Old Bastard

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Memoirs of an Old Bastard
by Jack Hibberd.

McPhee Gribble, Melbourne, 1989.
First Edition hardback. 212 pp.

Jacket design by Meredith Parslow.

‘For breakfast we had eggs poached in a champagne sauce, smoked salmon, jellied eel, and deep-fried sardines. To drink we had a choice of Darjeeling teas, schnapps ( for the jellied eel), and Lindeman’s 1968 Hunter River Riesling Reserve Bin 3455 ( for everything), the last being a majestic example of how the finest Australian Semillion can age with dignity and aplomb; this kind of wine speeds straight to the pineal gland, makes the grayest of days and winds up your biological clock.’ (p.82)

Australian decadent, from Pram Factory playwright and doctor Jack Hibberd. Publishers Mcphee Gribble hailed the novel as a ‘Rabelaisian satire of a new world city… which punctures pretensions and slashes sacred cows.’

Condition: Minor spotting to upper page edges, otherwise in very good condition.