Inner Worlds Outer Spaces
The working lives of others
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
3 December 2019
Summary
Intimate portraits of people who love what they do.
What does it feel like to be passionate about your daily work? How do people find their way into fascinating, unusually fulfilling careers, even against the odds?
Space lawyers and bibliotherapists; euthanasia activists and women’s rugby champions; shark experts and solar power visionaries; a master perfumer and a moon dust maven, among many others. What all of these people have in common is the courage to pursue their dreams…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760895389 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760895385 |
| Author: | Ceridwen Dovey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 3 December 2019 |
| Weight: | 435g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 154mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Ceridwen Dovey
Ceridwen Dovey is a writer based in Sydney. She’s the author of several acclaimed works of fiction (Blood Kin, Only the Animals, In the Garden of the Fugitives, Life After Truth, Once More With Feeling) and non-fiction (On J.M. Coetzee- Writers on Writers and Inner Worlds Outer Spaces- The Working Lives of Others). Her non-fiction essays have been published by the Smithsonian Magazine, WIRED, Vogue, the Monthly and Alexander, among many others. She’s the recipient of an Australian Museum Eureka Award, and the 2020 & 2021 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for science writing. Her latest book is Mothertongues, a work of literary fiction co-authored with Eliza Bell, and including original songs by Australian songwriter Keppie Coutts.
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