What days are for / Robert Dessaix
- Bib ID:
- 7286324
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dessaix, Robert, 1944-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Edition:
- Version 1.0.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- North Sydney, NSW : Random House Australia, 2014
- ©2014
- 1 online resource (208 pages)
- ISBN:
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- 0857985779
- 9780857985774
- Summary:
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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 hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and cannulae puncturing his body, as he recovers from the heart attack threatening daily to kill him. While lying in the hospital bed, Robert chances upon Philip Larkin's poem 'Days'. What, he muses, have his days been for? What and who has he loved - and why? 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 of mortality."--Website.
- Notes:
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- A Knopf book, First published by Knopf in 2014.
- Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult.
- Audience: General.
- Online resource; title from EPUB title page (OverDrive, viewed February 23, 2016)
- Awards:
- Winner, Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, 2016.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- What days are for : a memoir
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2014
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