{"product_id":"book-of-life-deborah-conway-9781761069383","title":"Book of Life","description":"\"\u003cb\u003eA no-holds-barred memoir that charts the rise and fall - and rise - of one of Australia's most iconic music performers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou think you know Deborah Conway? You think seeing her striding and scowling down Sydney's back streets in an oversize coat or galavanting around a golf course wearing a close approximation of plus fours means you know who Deborah Conway is? She figures you probably don't know the half of it. And there's a lot to know. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf you have listened to any of Deborah Conway's songs and were half curious about the origins; if you have ever wondered whatever happened to that chick who covered herself in Nutella and was photographed shovelling cream cakes in to her mouth; if you gave a nanosecond of thought to whose bare arse adorned the giant Billboard ads for Bluegrass jeans in the 1980's and how much someone could get paid to do that; if you liked Tracey Mann's vocals in The Takeaways but asked yourself, \"\"did she really sing them?\"\"; if you were a movie buff who thought \u003ci\u003eRunning On Empty\u003c\/i\u003e was a classic BEFORE it became a cult phenomenon and need behind the scenes gossip, now's your chance to find out all this and so much more. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eConway pulls back the curtain on the fevered world of a 1980's post punk band, the spectacular rise and fall and rise of one of the more obstreperous women working inside Australia's music industry, a woman who has straddled the high arts and the low without losing her footing or her mind and whose fierce independence has seen her produce her best work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook Of Life: the good, the bad, and the ugly of being alive in the 20th and 21st centuries from the vantage point of a music insider (and outsider) with a deep need to tell the truth about it all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Conway\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1761069381\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781761069383\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Allen \u0026amp; Unwin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/03\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Deborah Conway","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097065988351,"sku":"9781761069383","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/book-of-life-deborah-conway-9781761069383","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}