Holden's Performance

by Murray Bail (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $8.02

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.45

  This story covers four stages in the life of Australian Holden Shadbolt who moves from Adelaide to Sydney. He develops a reputation for silence and reliability and for an amazing photographic memory, making him useful to those in power and to those who appear to need protection. Murray Bail's first novel Homesickness won the 1980 Age Book of the Year Award.

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $13.28

  Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34. Model: Australian. No frills. Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to cinema bouncer to Prime Ministerial bodyguard. Guileless and matter of fact, Holden is fated to follow the flamboyant people around him- ex-Corporal McBee, who zealously woos Holden's mother; his Uncle Vern, a short-sighted proof -reader with a fondness for eating the morning paper with his cereal; and Harriet, the crippled poster artist, whose twists and curves intersect with Holden's unswervingly straight lines...