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Robert Dessaix
In today’s crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working…
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Robert Dessaix's testament to a wonderful life is funny, incisive and literary. His voice is completely distinctive and utterly compelling
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Originally published: Sydney: Pan Macmillan, 2004.
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Robert Dessaix takes on the erosion of meaning when words mask motivations in the modern world.
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This is a teasing grab-bag of thoughts, memories, anecdotes and effronteries that achieves luxurious coherence.‘ – Weekend Australian
This is a teasing grab-bag of thoughts, memories, anecdotes and effronteries that…
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This is vintage Robert Dessaix. His often surprisingly funny recollections range over topics as eclectic as intimacy, travel, spirituality, enchantment, language and childhood, all woven through with a heightened sense…
An extraordinary travel memoir by one of Australia’s finest writers
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With his trademark eloquence and humour, Robert Dessaix, one of Australia’s eminent writers, tackles humbug in the modern world - the tide of mumbo jumbo where words fall short of…
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Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia’s finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his…
Adopted as a baby towards the end of World War II, Robert Dessaix grew up haunted by 'a shaft of silence' surrounding the question of his natural mother's identity, and…
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The first novel from one of Australia’s finest writers
The second novel from one of Australia’s finest writers
The autobiography of one of Australia’s finest writers
