Try hard
Subtitle: tales from the life of a needy overachiever
By: Em Rusciano
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Australia)
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Cammeray, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781925310757
Subjects: Singers; Biography; Comedians; Entertainers
Description: A hilarious, heartfelt memoir from one of Australia's most adored performers. Funny, feisty and fabulous, Em Rusciano's insights into her world of mayhem, marriage and motherhood are a laugh-out-loud, cry-out-loud balm for the soul. From her exploits at the Miss Sheila Fancypants School of Dance and her efforts to secure a solo at her end-of-year performance, to embracing the spotlight as an Australian Idol contestant and her deep and abiding love for John Farnham, Em Rusciano is a self-confessed bottomless pit of anxiety with a taste for glitter. And behind the stage make-up Em is an overachiever of epic proportions, camp to the core and fiercely maternal. She has all the insecurities of a person who spends their nights racked with self-doubt and all the confidence of a woman who can walk out onto a stage in front of a sold-out theatre and absolutely slay the crowd. Em has an army of gay men she adores, tells the best dirty jokes and loves those closest to her ferociously. When the chips are down you definitely want her by your side. This all-singing, all-dancing, all-emoting, leopard-print clad warrior is fearless, fabulous and pants-wettingly funny. Her words on the page are silly and sacred, bawdy and heartfelt. The stuff of life. Try Hard is her story. Because she is. And she does.
Table of contents: title: 1. The epiphany; title: 2. The Miss Sheila Fancypants school of dance; title: 3. Doiymo; title: 4. Third generation lunatic; title: 5. A hobbit with a tast for glitter; title: 6. Virgin territory; title: 7. Gays of my life; title: 8. A fire in my flexible loins; title: 9. Up the spout; title: 10. Strayan idol; title: 11. Breakfast radio and a touch of PND; title: 12. Starting over; title: 13. Separation; title: 14. Em, I've got something to tell you; title: 15. Dad is psychic; title: 16. A just-in-case-of-death letter to my daughter.