Garry Kinnane

Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Grid Garry Kinnane

Mid-50s to mid-60s Melbourne - a Wowserland of 6 o'clock closing, censorship, endless suburbia ... "... we could settle down. But that was the farthest thing from our minds. We didn't want security, we wanted adventure, risk, experience, we wanted to see and grasp the world ..." In 'Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Grid', Garry Kinnane continues the story, begun in 'Shadowed Days', of a young man looking for his direction in life. Having left school early, Garry finds himself at twenty-one in danger of working forever as an insurance clerk in the city. But gradually he finds an escape route - through night classes in literature, the folk-revival, The Push, the attractions of a Bohemian life ... Garry Kinnane is the author of George Johnston: A Biography (winner of The Age Book of the Year 1986), and Colin Colahan: A Portrait. Garry is currently writing a sequence of memoirs, the first of which, Shadowed Days; Fragments of a Melbourne Boyhood was released in 2008 (shortlisted in the 2009 Queensland Premiers Literary Awards for non-fiction). Fare Thee Well, Hoddle Grid is the second volume, and a third is planned. Garry is also writing fiction, and teaching a U3A literature class in Geelong, where he now lives with his wife Jo.