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Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory, The: A Memoir

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Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory, The: A Memoir

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SKU: 9781760899134 Category: Product ID: 139957

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Title: Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory, The: A Memoir
Author: WHITE COREY
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 18/08/2020
Imprint: PENGUIN
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active

‘So beautifully written, so important, so absolutely unflinching as it gently takes you by the hand to show you exactly what the difference is between falling and flying.’ Sarah Krasnostein, author of The Trauma Cleaner

Corey White was a golden child. He knew this because his father would hit his mother and his sisters but not him. And his mother adored him so much she let him drop out of primary school.

After losing his father to jail and his mother to heroin, though, he became a target for cruelty and dysfunction in foster homes. A scholarship to a prestigious boarding school lifted him out of foster care and awakened a love of learning and reading for him, but this was soon overwhelmed by a crushing depression and drug addiction.

Through it all, he kept thinking – sometimes hoping, sometimes fearing – that he was destined for something bigger. Would he find salvation in the halls of a university, or a poetically grimy crack den, or through love? Or would the golden glow that had been in him since childhood ultimately fade, leaving only darkness and ruin?

The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory is a memoir of trauma and survival that will break your heart and then show you how to rebuild it. It is a powerful, lyrical and darkly funny debut from one of Australia’s brightest young comedians.

‘Equal parts hilarious and horrifying, Corey’s story is one of the most powerful I have ever read.’ Wil Anderson
‘Look back in anger. Look around in acceptance. Look forward in love. Harrowing, and yet hopeful.’ Tim Rogers

ISBN: 9781760899134
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 288

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Dimensions 198 × 129 mm