Dying: A Memoir
Based on the book by Cory Taylor
$39.29
- Paperback
56 pages
- Release Date
24 October 2025
Summary
When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017.
With honesty and unsentimental clarity Taylor confronts the swamp of anxiety and despair that traditionally surrounds death and opens the door to the bright clear-eyed vision it ultimately grants us. Learning to face death is, in the end, learning to live fully.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761732232 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1761732234 |
| Author: | Benjamin Law, Cory Taylor |
| Publisher: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Currency Press Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 56 |
| Release Date: | 24 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 84g |
| Dimensions: | 8mm x 138mm x 210mm |
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Benjamin Law
Benjamin Law is a writer whose work spans non-fiction, screenplays, journalism, stage plays, documentaries, and essays. His debut play, Torch the Place, was staged by the Melbourne Theatre Company and will be restaged by Queensland Theatre in 2026.
He is the bestselling author of The Family Law, which was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards and adapted into a three-season, award-winning SBS TV series of the same name. Benjamin was the creator, associate producer, and screenwriter for the series.
He is also the author of Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East, the Quarterly Essay Moral Panic 101, and editor of Growing Up Queer in Australia. As a screenwriter, Benjamin won an Australian Writers’ Guild Award for his work on the SBS drama New Gold Mountain. He also worked as co-executive producer, co-creator, and co-writer of the Netflix series Wellmania (2023).
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