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Brendan Shanahan Brendan Shanahan i(A84351 works by)
Born: Established: 1976 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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1 5 y separately published work icon Mr Snack and the Ladywater Brendan Shanahan , Carlton : Melbourne University Press , 2012 Z1911336 2012 single work prose travel 'Who is Mr Snack and why is he sharing my room? How do you avoid the attentions of a horny Norwegian Fisherman? Where are Cabbage Patch Kids born? All these questions are answered in Mr Snack and the Lady Water, a compilation of travel tales by Brendan Shanahan. In the title piece, Shanahan faces a three-day endurance test aboard a leaking barge on a China's Yangtze river in the company of a thousand spitting, baseball capped tourists. Other stories include his drunken online purchase of a home in Las Vegas, his brief career in Bollywood and a mediation on white guilt in post-apartheid South Africa. Boozy, road-soiled and a touch deviant, Shanahan's account of his 'lost years' are a comic master class, essential reading for anyone who has ever woken up in a strange bed or just stared at themselves in a mirror at 3am and asked 'Where am I?' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Why the Long face? Brendan Shanahan , 2009 extract autobiography (The Horse Whimperer)
— Appears in: The Age , 27 June 2009; (p. 18)
1 The Horse Whimperer Brendan Shanahan , 2009 single work autobiography
— Appears in: Your Mother Would Be Proud : True Tales of Mayhem and Misadventure 2009; (p. 26-37)
1 Better, She Wrote Brendan Shanahan , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 14 June 2009; (p. 8)
1 4 y separately published work icon In Turkey I Am Beautiful : Between Chaos and Madness in a Strange Land Brendan Shanahan , Pymble : HarperCollins Australia , 2008 Z1505334 2008 single work autobiography (taught in 1 units) 'When Brendan Shanahan returned to Turkey after two years to catch up with old friends he found much had changed. Not only was the country itself transforming but the lives of his Turkish friends seemed to be mirroring the growing pains of a nation on the cusp of its biggest transformation since independence. After travelling extensively in the wilds of the east - where, among other things, he found himself in the middle of a gunfight, was propositioned by shepherds and swam to Armenia in his underpants - Brendan eventually agreed to run his friend's carpet shop in Istanbul. With only the dubious help of his carpet-dealer friend, a lovable but frequently demanding bi-polar drug addict, the results were often disastrous, frequently hilarious and occasionally poignant. By the end of his travels he was broke and owned more carpets than floor, but had come to a deeper understanding both of a country he loved and the people he loved in it.' (Publisher's blurb)
1 Weaving on a Jet Plane Brendan Shanahan , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 May 2008; (p. 3)
1 The Publicity Nightmare Brendan Shanahan , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 August 2005; (p. 2)
1 5 y separately published work icon The Secret Life of the Gold Coast Brendan Shanahan , Camberwell : Penguin , 2004 Z1144210 2004 single work autobiography travel
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