Journey to the End of Time

Writing and memoir, artists and friends

AvAlex Miller

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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This collection of short stories, memoir, journal entries, essays and poems spans decades of Alex Miller's life. Opening with a moving depiction of Miller's father leaving for war, it closes with a 2023 poem reflecting on solitude and creative labour.Each piece responds to significant life events, engaging with works by prominent Australian artists and authors -including Janine Burke, Jacob Rosenberg, Sidney Nolan and Emily Kame Kngwarreye - who enriched Australia's cultural landscape.Journey to the End of Time forms a companion to The Simplest Words and A Kind of Confession - three volumes constructing an intimate narrative of Miller's life writing works of quiet power and beauty. His wisdom and experience shine in this rewarding anthology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-03-31
Mått:153 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:465 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Allen & Unwin
Antal sidor:336
Förlag:Allen & Unwin
ISBN:9781761473470

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Alex Miller is the award-winning author of fourteen novels, a biography and two collections. He is published internationally and widely in translation. Miller is twice winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award for The Ancestor Game and Journey to the Stone Country, overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, twice winner of the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier's Awards, winner of the Chinese 21st Century Weishanhi Best Foreign Novel of the Year and the Manning Clark Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life, and winner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. Miller's work of non-fiction,?Max, was shortlisted for the National Biography Award in 2021. Alex's collection of stories and memoir, The Simplest Words, published in 2015 was followed in 2023 with his collection of letters and notebooks, A Kind of Confession: The Writer's Private World, which was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for non-fiction in 2024

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A fascinating, moving account of the cost of commitment to writing, of the process, the disappointments, the sheer slog of it, the rejections, and the human buttresses who held Miller firm at his desk.