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In a quest to grow closer with his father, this adventurous author drags his 72-year-old dad, Harry Thacker, off the couch and halfway around the world to exotic locations such as Gibraltar, Sri Lanka, Malta, and Singapore as well as to the not-so-exotic places in England from Harry’s upbringing. Harry’s fear of eating foreign muck” is quickly forgotten as the pair embark on their travels and, along the way, Brian learns more about his father including why Harry lost two fingers on his right hand and where he picked up his inexhaustible supply of awful jokes. What results is an honest and hilarious recollection of the bond between father and son and of lives enriched by travel.
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Brian Thacker is the author of The Naked Man Festival; Planes, Trains, and Elephants; and Rule No. 5: No Sex on the Bus.
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Australian travel writer Thacker takes his father on a sentimental journey to the haunts of his father's early years. For a man born in England and resident from time to time in Gibraltar, Malta, Sri Lanka, and Singapore before emigrating with his young family to Melbourne, 72-year-old Harry Thacker holds a remarkable disaffinity for anything he perceives as novel. Xenophobic, homophobic, disdainful of all but bourgeois English--Australian foods, he seems to sustain himself on endless pints of beer in whatever passes for the nearest English pub. His son intends to use this travel opportunity to uncover his father's past, especially to find out how his dad came to lose several fingers. In hilarious prose, Thacker describes the endless, leaden roast beef and Yorkshire pudding dinners his English relatives load on him and inevitable fully fried breakfasts. An amusing portrait of a prickly but affectionate father-son relationship. Mark Knoblauch
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1741145317
- ISBN 13 9781741145311
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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