# Holden's Performance

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- Authors: [Murray Bail](https://www.bookquiver.com/murray-bail)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2000-12-28

## Description

Shadbolt, Holden. Gender: male. Age: 34. Model: Australian. No frills. Holden's Performance is the sprawling life story of Holden Shadbold: a hilarious all-Australian trajectory from car maniac to cinema bouncer to Prime Ministerial bodyguard. Guileless and matter of fact, Holden is fated to follow the flamboyant people around him- ex-Corporal McBee, who zealously woos Holden's mother; his Uncle Vern, a short-sighted proof -reader with a fondness for eating the morning paper with his cereal; and Harriet, the crippled poster artist, whose twists and curves intersect with Holden's unswervingly straight lines...

## Editions

### Holden's Performance

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-18-6046-592-5
- Pages: 384
- Published: 2000-12-28
- Language: en_GB