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Loading... The Best Australian Essays 20149 | None | 2,000,775 | None | None | 'Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinching.' - Robert Manne. In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. Tim Winton reflects on the impact of landscape on the Australian character; Helen Garner remembers her mother with a raw and stirring poignancy; Christos Tsiolkas wonders how the Left forgot their origins; Tim Flannery traces the history of the Great Barrier Reef and fears its destruction. With essays traversing madness, liberty under the rule of Tony Abbott, the enslaving of horses and the legacy of Doris Lessing, this sharp collection offers lucid insight, shrewd understanding and heartbreaking empathy.… (more) |
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. ▾Conversations (About links) No current Talk conversations about this book. » Add other authors Author name | Role | Type of author | Work? | Status | Manne, Robert | Editor | primary author | all editions | confirmed | Baum, Caroline | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Coetzee, JM | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Cole, Jessie | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Conrad, Peter | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Davidson, Robyn | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Flannery, Tim | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Garner, Helen | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Giovannoni, Moreno | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Glover, Dennis | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hayes, Antonia | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Hitchcock, Karen | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | James, Clive | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Lilley, Rozanna | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Malouf, David | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Marr, David | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Mogelson, Luke | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Murray, Neil | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Nolan, Rachel | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Pearson, Noel | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rothwell, Nicolas | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Rundle, Guy | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ryan, Christian | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Ryan, Luke | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Smith, Sybille | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tiffany, Carrie | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Tsiolkas, Christos | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Watson, Don | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed | Winton, Tim | Contributor | secondary author | all editions | confirmed |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions 'Some essays in this collection plunged me into thought. Some caused me to weep. Some brought tears of laughter. Some essays won me over by the power of their imagination. Some by their analytic clarity. Some by their excruciating honesty. Some by the pain of things past or present faced without flinching.' - Robert Manne. In The Best Australian Essays 2014, Robert Manne assembles his picks of contemporary non-fiction writing. Tim Winton reflects on the impact of landscape on the Australian character; Helen Garner remembers her mother with a raw and stirring poignancy; Christos Tsiolkas wonders how the Left forgot their origins; Tim Flannery traces the history of the Great Barrier Reef and fears its destruction. With essays traversing madness, liberty under the rule of Tony Abbott, the enslaving of horses and the legacy of Doris Lessing, this sharp collection offers lucid insight, shrewd understanding and heartbreaking empathy. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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