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Pickled Pieces and Rollicking Rhymes

Pickled Pieces and Rollicking Rhymes

Pickled Pieces and Rollicking Rhymes

Jim Connelly

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Editorial:
James Timothy Connelly
Año de edición:
2019
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Poesía
ISBN:
9780992454784
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Well-known Australian author, Jim Connelly, gives us another series of quirky observations on himself and his local community. In this volume he adds another dimension: a collection of his original bush verse, some comic, some old-world sentimental, all bearing his special brand of sympathetic understanding of human nature.

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