In this funny and moving memoir Louis Nowra, acclaimed playwright, novelist and screenwriter, takes us through an adulthood that includes actors, writers, directors, crazed producers, knife attacks, run-ins with police, one of the last transvestite priests of Sulawesi, an Eskimo Shaman, drunken nights in Moscow, women, Hollywood, the madness of filmmaking, an idiosycratic uncle, stalkers, love, and a dangerous flirtation with alcohol. Shooting the Moon is a superb evocation of a very unconventional and colourful life.