Tom Robb
From Ballarat to Baghdad - My Extraordinary Life
After a lifetime of international travel, Tom Robb, a master of the dramatic anecdote, has retired to rural Victoria to write his memoir.
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For thirty-three years he was the producer of lavish Moulin Rouge- style theatrical extravaganzas taking him and his partner Luis Moreno to cities from Paris to Tokyo, and every other city in between, mixing with legendary celebrities from the stars of stage and screen, and dictators, princes and presidents.
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The memoir begins with his dismal childhood of poverty and violence in Ballarat, and takes the reader to the gleaming pinnacles of a life in the fastest of lanes, and to the present period of hilarious reflection.
From the Top will move and inspire you with its frank, vivid, intimate, and rollicking detail. It elaborates on what it was like to be openly gay in Australia in the second half of the twentieth century. And, coming from a man whose life has been dedicated to entertaining, is laced with daring wit, and wild splashes of wisdom.
It is a warm and moving account of a life well lived; a love story that will move and inspire you. You won't want to miss a word.
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