The best Australian essays 2014 / edited by Robert Manne.

"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 withou...

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Other Authors: Manne, Robert (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Collingwood, Vic. : Black, Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd, [2014]
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505 0 |a Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Moreno Giovannoni : The Percheron; Rozanna Lilley : The Little Prince, and Other Vehicles; Caroline Baum : Waltzing the Jaguar; Peter Conrad : A Rolf in Sheep's Clothing; Jessie Cole : The Breaking Point; Karen Hitchcock : The Medicine; Antonia Hayes : Wolf Like Me; Luke Ryan : Sex and Cancer: A History in Three Parts; Helen Garner : Dreams of Her Real Self; Sybille Smith : The Old Australia? Oratava Avenue, 1940; Christian Ryan : The Unremembered Six; Dennis Glover : Doveton; Don Watson : My Fellow Australians. 
505 8 |a Rachel Nolan : Men of a Certain AgeDavid Marr : Freedom Abbott; J.M. Coetzee : The Last Instructions of Patrick White; Nicolas Rothwell : The Agony and the Ecstasy; David Malouf : Oh Walt, You're a Leaky Vessel; Clive James : Poems of a Lifetime; Carrie Tiffany : Reading Geoff Cochrane; Robyn Davidson : Vale Doris Lessing; Neil Murray : Cry When We're Gone; Noel Pearson : The War of the Worlds; Guy Rundle : Burning Men: An American Triptych; Christos Tsiolkas : May Day: How the Left Was Lost; Luke Mogelson : The Dream Boat; Tim Flannery : A Natural Wonder in Peril. 
505 8 |a Tim Winton : The Island Seen and Felt: Some Thoughts about LandscapePublication Details; Notes on Contributors; Back Cover. 
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