- Title:
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Killing Time: Short stories from the long road home
- Written by:
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Jimmy Barnes
- Read by:
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Jimmy Barnes
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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6
- Duration:
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7 hours 46 minutes
- Published:
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October 07 2020
- Available Date:
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October 07 2020
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781460786000
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; Autobiography; Short Stories & Anthologies
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/HarperCollins audio
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#1 bestselling author
Australian author
Stories of adventure, misadventure, love and loss from the #1 bestselling author of the critically acclaimed memoirs Working Class Boy and Working Class Man.
For a musician, killing time is an occupational hazard – hours and years slip by as you drive between towns, queue at airports, wait around at soundchecks and rest between tours. There’s a lot of time to kill.
My first two books sought to unpack a troubled childhood and make sense of my crazy rock ’n’ roll life. The stories in this collection are about what happened in between – in the downtime before gigs or during recording sessions, while travelling in remote places, hanging out with other musicians, or just quietly going about day-to-day life. Little things that took place along the way, on the long road home.
Tales of adventure, misadventure, love and loss – this collection of non-fiction short stories from the Australian rock legend turned writer is vintage Jimmy. Outrageous, witty, warm and wise, Killing Time shares more than 40 yarns reflecting an epic life – from an encounter with a soul legend in Memphis, a night in a haunted studio in upstate New York and a doomed haircut in Thailand, to a madcap misunderstanding in a Japanese ski resort and an all-too-revealing appearance for a Sydney charity.
'A stunning piece of work – relentless, earnest, shockingly vivid.'
The Australian
'A powerful, deeply emotional and transformative production.'
The Daily Telegraph
'Rare is the man who has lived this hard, this fast and this dangerously – only to survive and chronicle it all so superbly.'
Lisa Wilkinson, author of It Wasn't Meant to Be Like