Reading by Moonlight
How Books Saved a Life
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
28 March 2011
Summary
Winner of the 2010 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction and the 2011 Nita B Kibble Award.
When Miles Franklin-shortlisted novelist Brenda Walker became sick she turned to two healers: doctors and books. This is the story of how she recovered.
Packing her bag for hospital after being diagnosed with breast cancer, Brenda wondered which book to put in. As a novelist and professor of literature, her life was built around reading and writing. Books had always been her …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143205227 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143205226 |
| Author: | Brenda Walker |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 28 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 18mm x 130mm x 196mm |
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Brenda Walker
Brenda Walker is the author of the novels Crush, One More River, Poe’s Cat and The Wing of Night. The latter won the 2006 Nita B Kibble Award for an established writer and the 2007 Asher Award. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Reading by Moonlight, her memoir of reading and healing, won the 2010 Victorian Premiers Award for nonfiction and the 2011 Nita B Kibble Award.
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