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The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
Category: Health
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
Category: Health
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
Category: Biography
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
Category: Fiction
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
Category: Biography
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
What Days are for by Robert Dessaix
Category: Biography
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