Going South: A Road Trip Through Life

Stock Code:
BAE5947
Price:
$20.00

Description

Going South: A Road Trip Through Life by Colin Hogg.'A Memoir by Colin Hogg. 'Colin Hogg, (born Dunedin, New Zealand, 1950, to Scottish immigrant parents) is a writer best known for his music journalism, reviewing and column writing, and for his biographical books and his television documentaries. Hogg grew up in Dunedin and Invercargill where he joined The Southland Times as a cadet reporter at the age of 17. By the end of the 1960s, he was writing about music for the paper before departing for Auckland, The New Zealand Herald and the Auckland Star. "It was late afternoon and a few of us were sitting about in the sun having a drink on my birthday when the friend I've known the longest sat down opposite and looked at me like he was going to say something serious. He was, and he got straight to it. He had health issues, he said, in a tone that put the 'issues' word in ironic quotes. He'd been to see his doctor the previous day. He had maybe a year, he said. Maybe a bit more. 'We should go away for a road trip,' I blurted out. He nodded as if he knew I was going to say that 'Back south,' he said. ;Yeah, I said back to him. 'South' meant Southland, where our story started, 46 years earlier.' The book has some liquid damage down the page edges near the front of the book - but it does not affect the reading of the text badly.

Details

  • Author:
    Hogg, Colin
  • Book Condition:
    Good Minus
  • Publisher:
    HarperCollins New Zealand
  • Edition:
    First
  • Jacket Condition:
    None
  • Binding:
    Soft Cover
  • Location:
    X1
  • ISBN:
    9781775540816
  • Size:
    8vo
  • Pages:
    272
  • Publish Date:
    2015
Stock Level:
1 In Stock
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