Robert Dessaix - Böcker

In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer hours, consuming more than ever before; technology erodes the work-life balance further;...

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With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world-the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear.

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Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says...

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'This is a teasing grab-bag of thoughts, memories, anecdotes and effronteries that achieves luxurious coherence.' -- Weekend Australian As I Was Saying is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from spo...

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Winner of the Australian Literature Society Gold MedalShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary AwardEvery night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to ...

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'House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent.'In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he's never met, a young Australian actor pieces together the strange life story of the Australian writ...

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Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Winner of the Margaret Scott Prize For forty years, until the day he died, Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest novelists of Russia's Golden Age, was passionately devoted to the diva Pauline Viardot. ...

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One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the 20th-century French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement he felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, Dessaix sets...

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Shortlisted for the Association for the Study of Australian Literature Gold Medal and the Victorian Premier's Literary AwardsHighly commended for the FAW Christina Stead Award, the Age Book of the Year and the National Book Council CUB Banjo Award...

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