A fortunate life

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A Fortunate Life is the only book written by Australian author, Albert Bernard Facey. The author recounts the events of his life from the late 19th century through to There are no literary devices employed: this is simple narration, the honest telling of a tale /5.

What you are reading in A FORTUNATE LIFE is history - history of the most personal and valuable sort. Because, for his time, Albert Facey was a kind of Everyman. And the reading world is very fortunate indeed that Albert Facey took the time, with the encouragement of his devoted wife, to set it all down for us.

A.B. Facey died innine months after his book Cited by: A fortunate life Paperback – January 1, by A. B Facey (Author)/5(). A Fortunate Life reveals the details of his early years in Hollywood, when he found himself appearing as often in the gossip magazines as on screen, and he recounts insider stories about such 4/5(3).

A Fortunate Life. A B Facey. Penguin Group Australia, Jul 1, - Juvenile Fiction - pages. 2 Reviews. Born inFacey lived the rough frontier life 5/5(2). A Fortunate Life Book Synopsis. Born inAlbert Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife, Evelyn.

Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a ‘fortunate’ one/5. ‘A Fortunate Life’ embraces themes that are intrinsic to our history and culture as modern Australians – resilience, fortitude, hope and integrity, bringing the beloved bushland to the big screen and placing humanity centre-stage.

A Fortunate Life by Albert Barnett Facey finally appeared in ‘Bert’ Facey was born inseven years before Federation and the birth of a modern Australian nation. A fortunate life book life closely mapped the drama of the early decades of the young country, in peacetime and in war.4/5(7).

Students are to choose one chapter from A Fortunate Life as the basis for their comparative work. Students choose one topic of comparison, aligned to their own interests or the work they have done for this unit of work, from the following options: artistic representations (for example, the Heidelberg School)/5(7).

"A Fortunate Life" is more an account of the authors life than a story and believe me he had a tough time of it. However he persevered and managed to pull through. Fascinating reading. Read more. Helpful. Comment Report abuse. Margc. out of 5 stars A B Facey.

Reviewed in Australia on 23 June /5(). About the Author A.B. Facey (–) was born and grew up on the Kalgoorlie Goldfields and the Wheatbelt of Western Australia.

He went out to work when he was eight years old, and was droving in the North-West at fourteen. He had no formal education and originally wrote his acclaimed autobiography, A Fortunate Life, for his family/5().

Albert Barnett Facey (31 August – 11 February ), publishing as A.B. Facey was an Australian writer and World War I veteran, whose main work was his autobiography, A Fortunate Life, now considered a classic of Australian has sold more thancopies and was the subject of a television mini-series.

Free download or read online A Fortunate Life pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published inand was written by Albert B. Facey. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of pages and is available in Paperback format.

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This essay, an introduction to A Fortunate Life, was written for the Reading Australia discusses Facey's life and character, and the genesis of his autobiography. The essay highlights a range of reader responses to Facey's story and argues that 21st century readers should return to the book 'to rescue the text from misreadings that have grown up around it and to hear.

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The remarkable story of an 'ordinary' man. Bert Facey's childhood ended when he was eight years old. That was when his grandmother had to send him away to work for his keep. Bert grew up tough in the vast, wild outback of Western Australia. Albert Facey?s story is the story of Australia. Born inand first sent to work at the age of nine, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his.

A Fortunate Life by A. Facey,available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide/5(K). It is a great book. Without giving away the true story, it is about the hard life of a man, told by himself as though you are sitting at his knee as a grandchild.

This is a story of a 'ordinary man' who thought of himself as such; but he was really a hero of /5(63). With Bill Kerr, Dorothy Alison, Dale Randall, John Ley. Four part biopic about classic Australian author A.B.

Facey (). Born in a large impoverished family, uneducated and illiterate, he had to fend for himself since he was eight, and as a recruit in WWI, he was sent to Gallipoli/10(3).A Fortunate Life (Unabridged) audiobook, by A.

B. Facey Born inFacey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent 60 years with his beloved wife, Evelyn.

Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a fortunate one.