Seize the Fire
Three Speeches
$15.06
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
29 October 2018
Summary
In Seize the Fire, Richard Flanagan argues that Australia is not a fixed entity, but a molten idea - a country with a future that is ours to shape and ours to dream anew.
Australia is not a fixed entity, a collection of outdated bigotries and reactionary credos, but rather an invitation to dream, and this country—our country—belongs to its dreamers … if we are finally to once more go forward as a people it’s time our dreamers were brought in from the cold.
Richard Fla…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143795322 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143795325 |
| Author: | Richard Flanagan |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 29 October 2018 |
| Weight: | 88g |
| Dimensions: | 179mm x 111mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan has been described by the Washington Post as ‘one of our greatest living novelists’ and by the New York Review of Books as ‘among the most versatile writers in the English language’.
He won the Commonwealth Prize for Gould’s Book of Fish and the Booker Prize for The Narrow Road to the Deep North. His novel Question 7 was shortlisted for the Prix Femina etranger and the Prix du meilleur livre etranger, and it won the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction.
Richard Flanagan is the first and only author to have ever won both the Booker and the Baillie Gifford prizes.
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