| What Days Are for: A Memoir Contributor(s): Dessaix, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 0857989014 ISBN-13: 9780857989017 Publisher: Vintage Australia OUR PRICE: $20.69 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Lgbt - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.25 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian - Sex & Gender - Gay |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |