Summary
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 FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and cannulae puncturing his body, as he recovers from the heart attack threatening daily to kill him.
While lying in the hospital bed, Robert chances upon Philip Larkin’s poem ‘Days…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857989017 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857989014 |
| Author: | Robert Dessaix |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 1 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 174g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 131mm x 16mm |
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About The Author
Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix is a writer of fiction, autobiography, and occasional essays. From 1985 to 1995, after teaching Russian language and literature for many years at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, he presented the weekly Books and Writing program on ABC Radio National. In more recent years, he has also presented radio series on Australian public intellectuals and great travellers in history, as well as regular programs on language.
His best-known books, all translated into several European languages, include:
- A Mother’s Disgrace (autobiography)
- Night Letters (novel)
- Corfu (novel)
- (and so forth) (collection of essays and short stories)
- Twilight of Love (travel memoir)
- Arabesques (travel memoir)
In 2012, he published the collection of originally spoken pieces As I Was Saying, and in 2014, the meditation What Days Are For. A full-time writer since 1995, Robert Dessaix lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
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