| What Days Are for Contributor(s): Dessaix, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857985760 ISBN-13: 9780857985767 Publisher: Knopf Australia OUR PRICE: $25.16 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Lgbt |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.7" W x 8.3" (0.80 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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, with 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. |