Free radical

Biography & Memoir
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Author: Roderic Anderson ISBN: 9781465892362
Publisher: Roderic Anderson Publication: January 28, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Roderic Anderson
ISBN: 9781465892362
Publisher: Roderic Anderson
Publication: January 28, 2012
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Free Radical is Roderic Anderson’s second memoir, from age 18 to 37. It opens where his earlier memoir, Well of Life ends, with his joining the Royal Australian Air Force in 1943, continues through his inglorious war service, having many gay adventures along the way, joining the Communist Party of Australia, participating in student politics and engaging in closet gay sex while doing a science course.

After graduating Rod does a Dip. Ed. course and teaches science and maths in Victorian high schools and Brighton Grammar School until, fed up with the conservative, conformist governments of Prime Minister Menzies and Premier Bolte, and the hypocrisy of being a gay, atheist Communist working in an Anglican school, he cashes his superannuation and takes ship to London, to seek work in a former British colony.

Though most people think of the 1950s as bland and boring, for him they were interesting times ─ the fall of Stalinism, the Cuban revolution, the start of the atomic age, and much closeted gay sex.

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Free Radical is Roderic Anderson’s second memoir, from age 18 to 37. It opens where his earlier memoir, Well of Life ends, with his joining the Royal Australian Air Force in 1943, continues through his inglorious war service, having many gay adventures along the way, joining the Communist Party of Australia, participating in student politics and engaging in closet gay sex while doing a science course.

After graduating Rod does a Dip. Ed. course and teaches science and maths in Victorian high schools and Brighton Grammar School until, fed up with the conservative, conformist governments of Prime Minister Menzies and Premier Bolte, and the hypocrisy of being a gay, atheist Communist working in an Anglican school, he cashes his superannuation and takes ship to London, to seek work in a former British colony.

Though most people think of the 1950s as bland and boring, for him they were interesting times ─ the fall of Stalinism, the Cuban revolution, the start of the atomic age, and much closeted gay sex.

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