Pardoe & Beyond

by George Kennedy

Pardoe & Beyond and its sequels are Memoirs aspiring to literature’s brevity and wit. A notable Booker Prize winner describes extracts as ‘highly entertaining’. I grew up to the sighs and murmurs of Pardoe Beach, Tasmania. The beauty of women and words entrance me still. OUR HOUSE
Where Granny “I l-o-a-t-h-e cats, and they know it. They always choose me to rub themselves against.” Even if I disliked dogs I wouldn’t say it. I loathe people who loathe cats. They always come and rub themselves against me. Where a visitor says “I can take cats or leave them” I say “Leave them.” PARDOE
Where kelp pompoms are thrashed by mermaid cheerleaders. Hold fast girls!
Where beached kelp, scattered with mermaids’ purses, lifts to seething sea-lice. BATTERY POINT
She is fourteen
She has joy in her face
She passes by him
He is sixteen
She is wonderful
He does not speak… Proverbs
Don’t sleep at night while you are on duty, don’t talk a secret thing in the bed while she has a lover.
Don’t imitate the elephant while it exhausts its dung.
The scholar is falling in the deep pitch of knowledge, causes the ignorants to heaven…

244 pages, Hardcover

Published May 10, 2017

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