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Night Letters by Robert Dessaix
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, an Australian man recently diagnosed with an incurable disease writes a letter home to a friend. In these letters he reflects on questions of mortality, seduction and the search for paradise in deeply life-enhancing ways. Papberback (B-Format)
Night Letters by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Every night for twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, a man recently diagnosed with HIV writes a letter home to a friend. he describes not only the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made from Switzerland across northern Italy to Venice, but reflects on questions of mortality, seduction and the search ...Show more
On Humbug by Robert Dessaix
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Little Books on Big Themes
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 what they mean and motivations are not always what they appear.
The Best Australian Essays: 2005 by Robert Dessaix
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers.
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
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 longer hours, consuming more than ever before; technology erodes the work-life balance further; increasingly, people feel that only work gives existence ...Show more
The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
'Almost everybody I know has done it at least once. Some of my friends indulge on a regular basis. Women seem especially susceptible to giving it a go. I?ve been at it since I was at least five. What on earth do we imagine we?re doing??Many of us lack a talent for leisure. We are working longer hours as ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
$26.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: Adult
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
Twilight of Love by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
For forty years, until the day he died, Ivan Turgenev, one of the greatest novelists of Russia’s Golden Age, was passionately devoted to the diva Pauline Viardot. He followed her and her husband around Europe, even living with them amicably at times as part of their household. Yet as far as we know, the ...Show more
Twilight of Love - Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix
$22.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Robert Dessaix has had his own forty year relationship whith Turgenev and his work, first as a student of Russian, then as a tutor and now as an old friend. A truly remarkable work of memoir, literary biography and travel writing - a cultural and physical exploration - Dessiax has found the pulse that q ...Show more
Twilight of Love - Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix
$40.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: very good
Alongside his friends Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev was one of the three great men of the Russian novelâÂÂs golden age. Fathers and Sons and A HunterâÂÂs Notes caused sensations when they were published; by depicting serfs as human beings, the latter was said to have persuaded the Tsar to free ...Show more
What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
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 hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...Show more