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I'd rather not, Robert Skinner

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non fiction

I'd rather not

Robert Skinner

From one of Australia's most wryly funny writers comes an original and utterly hilarious memoir of reaching for the stars while lying in a ditch. 'I was sleeping in what might reasonably be described as a ditch, though I tried not to think of it in those terms for morale reasons . . .' Robert Skinner arrives in the city, searching for a richer life. Things begin badly and then, surprisingly, get slightly worse. Pretty soon he's sleeping rough and trying to run a literary magazine out of a dog park. His quest for meaning keeps being thwarted, by endless jobs, beagles, house parties, illadvised love affairs, camel trips and bureaucratic entanglements. Sometimes a book catches the spirit of the times. I'd Rather Not is about work, escape and that something more we all need

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I would rather not