What Days Are For: A Memoir by Robert Dessaix (English) Paperback Book

Description: What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australias 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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 Mothers 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. In 2012 he published the collection of pieces, As I Was Saying. His most recent book is What Days Are For (November, 2014). A full-time writer since 1995, Robert Dessaix lives in Hobart, Tasmania. Promotional "Headline" " Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australias finest writers. " Details ISBN0857989014 Author Robert Dessaix Pages 240 Publisher Random House Australia Year 2015 ISBN-10 0857989014 ISBN-13 9780857989017 Format Paperback Publication Date 2015-10-01 Country of Publication Australia Short Title WHAT DAYS ARE FOR Language English Media Book Residence Melborne, AU Birth 1944 Imprint Vintage Place of Publication Milsons Point DEWEY B Subtitle A Memoir Audience General/Trade We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:92648988;

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