Justin Sheedy's Blog - Posts Tagged "clive-james"

Justin Sheedy was delighted to see his latest book, “MEMOIRS OF A GO-GO DANCER”, launched on the eve of Christmas 2014 & now being read & loved by book-lovers everywhere. Its maiden 5-Star Amazon review begins & ends thus: "100% Unputdownable... I cannot recommend this book highly enough." - Yasmine Wick Kopita, Texas.

Sheedy’s 4th book, “Memoirs of a Go-Go Dancer” is the long-awaited sequel to his first, “Goodbye Crackernight” (2009), Sheedy’s warmly-received comic memoir of growing up in 1970s Australia when a child’s proudest possession was not a smart phone but a second-hand bike.

“Memoirs of a Go-Go Dancer” is Sheedy's portrait of teenage in the 1980s: of manic adolescence under the threat of nuclear destruction and ‘the Grim Reaper’, a time of ‘Perfect Match’, of hideous 1980s fashions and much, much more. A true portrait of the era, Sheedy’s story features his own experience of the iconic events that shaped the decade such as the fall of the Berlin Wall. He captures the spirit of his 1980s personal hero figures such as Clive James and Bob Hawke including Hawke’s great ‘America’s Cup moment’. Political, social and cultural issues of the 1980s are richly covered and, yes, as readers of “Memoirs of a Go-Go Dancer” will discover, 19-year-old Justin Sheedy turned out to have a rare talent indeed…

MEMOIRS OF A GO-GO DANCER. Justin Sheedy’s first job out of school was a symbol of his rebellion against the 1980s – a decade so lame it cried out for any other. Crackernight, the annual fireworks festival of his childhood, was gone. So was childhood. Justin’s teenage would be a search for new fireworks. He would find them. In his legendary schoolteachers, in questioning his elders, in playing rock and roll, in marching against nuclear madness, and in that scariest of all things known to Man: GIRLS. And all that was before he became a Go-Go Dancer! Then the fun really started…

MEMOIRS OF A GO-GO DANCER is freshly available via bookstores everywhere (if not on shelves so soon since its launch then orderable-in across the counter), also via Amazon & all leading online book retailers in paperback & ebook formats.