There are books of autobiography and there are books about religious faith, but not often is a book a life story and also a faith journey. The Naked Fish is a memoir that arises out of an overlooked strata of Australian society: the Christian middle-class family, where faith and feeling run deep.
Ian Hansen's book tells his story of growing up in the 1930s and 1940s in a suburban, church-going family. It follows the author as he becomes first a teacher, then a university lecturer, first a father and then a grandfather. As the world changes around him and his faith is tested to the limit, his story becomes also a meditation on the search for meaning in life, as he describes his search for a view of the world that will satisfy his spiritual yearnings.
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Ian Hansen grew up in Adelaide and Melbourne during the 1930s and 40s. He became a teacher during the 1950s, working both in Australia and England with his wife, Dorothy. Ian Hansen has three children and seven grandchildren and now lives in Melbourne.
ISBN 9781862545939
CATEGORY Biography/Autobiography/True Stories
PAGE COUNT 232
DIMENSIONS 210 x 135 mm
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'A moving demonstration of a man's continuity of faith, which gives the text a kind of glow, from chapter to chapter, even as heart-breaking incidents are chronicled.' - Barry Hill
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'A powerful account of how the author has to come to terms with dramatic social change and has been forced to readjust his religious view of the world.' - Tim Costello