![]() ![]() "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title. ![]() They very soon found they had a bestseller on their hands! Albert died in 1982, nine months after A Fortunate Life had been published, and his daughter Barbara died in 2010. Finally, on the urging of his daughter, Barbara Rose, the hand-written manuscript was submitted to the Fremantle Arts Centre Press to see 'if they could print a few copies for the family'. He made the first notes of his life soon after World War I, and filled notebooks with his accounts of his experiences. Albert Faceys story is the story of Australia. ![]() Facey, who had no formal education, taught himself to read and write. He joined the tramways and was active in the Tramways Union. He was in the Eleventh Battalion at the Gallipoli landing after the war, he became a farmer under the Soldier Settlement Scheme but was forced off the land during the Depression. His many jobs included droving, hammering spikes on the railway line from Merredin to Wickepin and boxing in a travelling troupe. He was looked after by his grandmother until he was eight years old, when he went out to work. His father died before he was two and he was deserted by his mother soon afterwards. But it is certainly something that Australian literature should be proud of and I agree that it should have been included in the Top 10 'Aussie Books to Read Before you Die' which was currently voted. ![]() Facey (1894-2010) and grew up on the Kalgoorlie goldfields and in the wheat-belt of Western Australia. Sadly, this is A B Faceys only novel, and its sad that he was unable to write anything else as his writing is just so easy and honest to read. ![]()
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