Reckoning by Magda Szubanski
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Reckoning
- A Memoir
- By: Magda Szubanski
- Narrated by: Magda Szubanski
- Length: 12 hrs and 23 mins
- Categories: Biographies & Memoirs
Publisher's Summary
Heartbreaking, joyous, traumatic, intimate and revelatory, Reckoning is the book where Magda Szubanski, one of Australia’s most beloved performers, tells her story.
In this extraordinary memoir, Magda Szubanski describes her journey of self-discovery from a suburban childhood, haunted by the demons of her father’s espionage activities in wartime Poland and by her secret awareness of her sexuality, to the complex dramas of adulthood and her need to find out the truth about herself and her family.
With courage and compassion she addresses her own frailties and fears and asks the big questions about life, about the shadows we inherit and the gifts we pass on.
Honest, poignant, utterly captivating, Reckoning announces the arrival of a fearless writer and natural storyteller. It will touch the lives of its listeners.
©2015 Magda Szubanski (P)2015 Bolinda
Stan
Moving and powerful
I’d heard good things of this book. Even so, it exceeded my expectations. I was frequently moved by her depictions of her parents, of their dilemmas, of her dilemmas.
The thing that makes this an outstanding audiobook is that her tale is diversely populated – mainly with Poles and Scots, whose accents she captures very well. And occasionally she throws in a Dutch accent or an ocker one.
She deals with important themes – right/wrong, life/death, struggles with sexuality and identity, politics of oppression, encountering feminism.
As a heterosexual Jewish-Polish male nearly ten years older than Magda, I love this book.
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Dudley
A masterpiece
Magda I am so grateful to you for all the happiness you have given me over the years in your various incarnations – my favourite other than Babe was the Meetings of the Daughters of Satan – I still do a really good rendition.
But, this book is simply magnificent, a masterful and gripping story. Told with such humility, honesty and brilliance. Thank you so much.
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