Mug shots : a memoir / Barry Oakley.

Includes bibliographical references.

Mug Shots is the autobiography of prize-winning novelist and playwright Barry Oakley, now eighty, from his Catholic childhood and education in Melbourne.

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Mug Shots; Title page; Imprint; Dedication; Epigraph; Teeth; The Christian Brothers (quickly); Operatic Melbourne; Ours and theirs; The Christian Brothers defended; Languor and longing; The temporary trustees; Speak to her, now!; Prone at last; Whatever happened to Sloyd?; Months of Sundays; Unexplored territory; Are you engagé?; Green in the face; Ron, myself and the mystic marriage; Horrie, king of the chimps; So this is Darwin; Do you think he's normal?; Are you sure you're cut out for this?; Smirks and titters; Dead; Two boys; Lovely girls -- and literature; Vincent's Powders; Funny eyes

Man and wifeDutiful Catholics; Don't be nice; Birth and afterbirth; Nightmare of the red room; Responsibility avoided again; Has he come good yet?; On top of the world; Always cover yourself; Head down at night; Mama mia; Tigerland; Disgusting passages; Becomes Freemason; The gap between the bricks; Phantom hisser exposed; Day to day, hour to hour; The happy corner and the nasty corner; My strangest friend; 'What have I done?'; Reading goes down well; Three o'clock in the morning; Sooty boiler; Short theatrical interval; Frozen family found; Just like home; Large rubber clothes peg

Joining the enemyLecturer takes off his clothes; It'll be right on the night; Most boring man in Sydney; Refuses to get off butt; Monster escapes; Censorship is back; Writer disappears; The glass house; Meets someone else; Shirtsong; As seen on TV; The entire instrumentarium; The inward sleep; 'Fuck it, ' said Robert; Rat remains on sinking ship; The terror of the machines; Exasperated limpidity; Slow fade; Struggling up the rope ladder; Cripple kicked; Optical enjoyment; Be prepared; Dusted and dignified; Blandness strikes back; Finding a house; Caryatid no longer; Misquoted -- twice

Old bonesGoing home; Back cover

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