Death Sentence
The Decay of Public Language
$24.82
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2018
Summary
Part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia’s public language, Don Watson’s Death Sentence is scathing, funny and brilliant.
’ … in public life the language has never been held in less regard. It withers in the dungeons of the technocratic mind. It is butchered by the media. In politics it lacks all qualifications for the main game.’
Almost sixty years ago, George Orwell described the decay of language and why this threatened democratic society. But compared …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143790983 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0143790986 |
| Author: | Don Watson |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2018 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Don Watson
Don Watson’s Recollections of a Bleeding Heart- Paul Keating Prime Minister, won the Age Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association’s Book of the Year. His Quarterly Essay, Rabbit Syndrome- Australia and America won the Alfred Deakin Essay Prize. Death Sentence, his best-selling book about the decay of public language won the Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year. Watson’s Dictionary of Weasel Words was also a bestseller. American Journeys won the Age Non-Fiction and Book of the Year Awards. It also won the inaugural Indie Award for Non-Fiction and the Walkley Award for Non-Fiction.
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