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A thousand steps from the farm to the blue black highway, the adventure continues... In the sequel to his highly acclaimed first memoir Stillways Steve Bisley lands smack dab in the middle of Sydney. It’s 1966. High waisted bell bottom pants, paisley body shirts, velvet jackets, platform shoes and a lust for everything life has to offer him. And it offers him a lot.From cadet graphic artist to private eye, lover, fighter, dreamer, milk man, truck driver and everything in between and then some. Till the day he auditions for the acting course at The National Institute of Dramatic Art and to his dismay is accepted, along with fellow classmates, Judy Davis and Mel Gibson. Three years later, on their graduation day, Mel and Steve are cast in a film that will change their lives forever. The Iconic Australian cult film Mad Max.In this sensory and poetic memoir, actor Steve Bisley reflects on loving, losing, wrecking and running – the bridges burned – in the decades since hitchhiking away from the small family farm on the central coast of NSW in the 1960s. He explores with confronting honesty what it is to live on the edge of uncertainty, regret, despair and depression as an actor, lover and father, a life held together at times “by bits of frayed cotton and Perkin’s paste and hope”.
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Steve Bisley has been a film and television actor for more than 30 years, best known for his roles in Mad Max and The Great Gatsby and as Detective Jack Christy in the long-running television series Water Rats. He has most recently played Jim Knight in the popular Nine Network drama Doctor Doctor.
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- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 176040084X
- ISBN 13 9781760400842
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Book Description Paperback. 1017. A thousand steps from the farm to the blue black highway, the adventure continues. In the sequel to his highly acclaimed first memoir Stillways Steve Bisley lands smack dab in the middle of Sydney. It's 1966. High waisted bell bottom pants, paisley body shirts, velvet jackets, platform shoes and a lust for everything life has to offer him. And it offers him a lot.From cadet graphic artist to private eye, lover, fighter, dreamer, milk man, truck driver and everything in between and then some. Till the day he auditions for the acting course at The National Institute of Dramatic Art and to his dismay is accepted, along with fellow classmates, Judy Davis and Mel Gibson. Three years later, on their graduation day, Mel and Steve are cast in a film that will change their lives forever. The Iconic Australian cult film Mad Max.In this sensory and poetic memoir, actor Steve Bisley reflects on loving, losing, wrecking and running - the bridges burned - in the decades since hitchhiking away from the small family farm on the central coast of NSW in the 1960s. He explores with confronting honesty what it is to live on the edge of uncertainty, regret, despair and depression as an actor, lover and father, a life held together at times "by bits of frayed cotton and Perkin's paste and hope". 2017. First edition. A near fine copy. Seller Inventory # 10363007
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed by Author. Photographic paperback binding with light and dark orange coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Colour photograph of author to the rear panel. The sequel to the author's first memoir "Stillways". It's Sydney, 1967 where the author does this and that until he auditions for the acting course at The National Institute of Dramatic Art and is accepted, much to his dismay. His classmates include Judy Davis and Mel Gibson; " . Three years later, on their graduation day, Mel and Steve are cast in a film that will change their lives for ever. The iconic Australian cult film Mad Max." Â from the rear panel blurb. Minor creasing of the book corners with rubbing of the book edges and panels. There are some grubby marks to the book panels. Age toning of the text block edges and pages. Full number line. Size: Trade Paperback. [6], 247, [3] pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Australia; Film, Radio & Television. Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 176040084X. ISBN/EAN: 9781760400842. Inventory No: 0286512. Seller Inventory # 0286512
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