As I Was Saying
A Collection of Musings
$28.47
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
1 March 2012
Summary
‘This is a teasing grab-bag of thoughts, memories, anecdotes and effronteries that achieves luxurious coherence.’ – Weekend Australian
As I Was Saying is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the conversation invites the reader to join a leisurely g…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742753072 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1742753078 |
| Author: | Robert Dessaix |
| Publisher: | Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 1 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 209mm x 136mm x 15mm |
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Critics Review
“No description can do justice to this moving work… . Gracefully written, saturated with the sorrows and joys of years.”
A teasing grab-bag of thoughts, memories, anecdotes, and effronteries that achieves luxurious coherence. –Weekend Australian
In an era where the art of good conversation is replaced by tweets and status updates, Dessaix represents a refreshing blast from the good old days when thoughts longer than 140 characters actually mattered. –Illawarra Mercury
It is a wonderfully rich and challenging piece. This book is energised with color and the virtuosity of language. It is a book to muse over by taking a walk. –Christopher Bantick, Sunday Magazine, Hobart
No description can do justice to this moving work… . Gracefully written, saturated with the sorrows and joys of years. –Kirkus Reviews on Twilight of Love
About The Author
Robert Dessaix
Robert Dessaix is a writer, translator, broadcaster and occasional essayist. From 1985 to 1995, after teaching Russian language and literature for many years at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, he presented the weekly Books and Writing program on ABC Radio National. In more recent years he has also presented radio series on Australian public intellectuals and great travellers in history, as well as regular programs on language. His best-known books, all translated into several European languages, are his autobiography A Mother’s Disgrace; the novels Night Letters and Corfu; a collection of essays and short stories (And So Forth); and the travel memoirs Twilight of Love and Arabesques. A full-time writer since 1995, Robert Dessaix lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
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