A striking collaboration between artists of stage and screen honours the trials and triumphs of extraordinary everyman A.B Facey, whose award-winning Australian classic autobiography, A Fortunate Life, has been adapted for theatrical. Facey, whose award-winning Australian classic autobiography, A Fortunate Life. Resilience, fortitude, love an ordinary man’s extraordinary life in 20th Century Western Australia. It’s a companion and friend, much, much more than a collection of words … The charm of the chapters lies in the sincerity of the author, a man that one finds so easy to admire through his writing alone. screen honours the trials and triumphs of extraordinary everyman A.B.
‘Bert’ Facey was born in 1894, seven years before Federation and the birth of a modern Australian nation. ‘This is the sort of book that makes me feel comfortable and warm. A Fortunate Life by Albert Barnett Facey finally appeared in 1981. ‘ extremely powerful description of Gallipoli.’ Australian Book Review ‘ plain, unembellished, utterly sincere and un self-pitying account of the privations of childhood and youth.’ Courier Mail
Born in 1894 and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn with whom he shared nearly 60 years of marriage.ĭespite enduring unimaginable hardships, Facey always saw his life as a fortunate one.Ī true classic of Australian literature, Facey’s simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century – the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.
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