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A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 of his own identity and sexuality. In this touching memoir, he recounts the story of a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, ...Show more
A Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: A&R Classics Ser.
The frank and intimate journey of self-discovery by author, critic and arts commentator Robert Dessaix. Confronting, revealing and candid, the book traces his life from adoption towards the end of World War II, to a most unusual childhood on Sydney's North Shore, to his fascination with Russia and his t ...Show more
And So Forth by Robert Dessaix
$22.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: good
Arabesques by Robert Dessaix
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Featuring meditations and conversations with fellow travellers on such diverse subjects as why we travel, growing old, illicit passions, and the essence of Protestantism - and illustrated with over 100 stunning illustrations and photos Arabesques is Robert Dessaix and travel memoir at their absolute fin ...Show more
Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the 20th-century French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement he felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, Dessaix sets off to recapture what it was that once drew him so stron ...Show more
Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives - SIGNED by Robert Dessaix
$49.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to t ...Show more
Arabesques: A tale of double lives by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, France, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so stron ...Show more
As I Was Saying - A Collection of Musings by Robert Dessaix
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
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 con ...Show more
Best Australian Essays 2004 by Robert Dessaix (ed)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Corfu by Robert Dessaix
$22.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent.' In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he
Corfu by Robert Dessaix
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent. In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man hes never met, a young Australian actor pieces together the strange life story of the Australian writer whose house hes living in. As he explores his surroundi ...Show more
Mother's Disgrace by Robert Dessaix
$14.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: AR Classics
An intimate and moving account of the search for origins and identity by respected author, broadcaster, essayist and translator Robert Dessaix. 'A journey of identity by a virtuoso in language and master of narrative control ...a brave, moving, funny, enthralling book - all the way' - tHE CANBERRA tIMES ...Show more