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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9780732909437
In this selection of his short fiction, essays and journalism from the last decade Dessaix offers insights into the many selves at play behind the mask of well-known broadcaster and author of Night Letters...more details Format:Hardback
Adopted as a baby towards the end of WWII, Robert Dessaix grew up haunted by a 'shaft of silence' surrounding the question of his natural mother's identity...more details Format:CD-Audio
The frank and intimate journey of self-discovery by author, critic and arts commentator Robert Dessaix. Confronting, revealing and candid, the book traces his life from adoption towards the end of World War II...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9780330424059
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager...more details Format:Hardback
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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9781863952378
This collection provides a picture of the year that has just been and a way of catching up on the best that has been thought and said in our society...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9781863951180
A rich and diverting collection of essays, compiled by one of Australia's finest writers, Robert Dessaix....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9780522856033
Part of a series that pairs leading Australian thinkers and cultural figures with important themes in life, this examination tackles the meanings of the word "humbug" in the modern world. Blending pop culture...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:93
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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9780733306532
Based on the highly regarded Radio National series, Robert Dessaix and some of Australia's most respected thinkers set out to examine in an expanded form the notion of a public intellectual life in Australia in the 1990s...more details Format:Paperback
Following in the footsteps of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev through Germany, France and finally Russia, Dessaix talks to his readers not just about this superb novelist and his books but about his own growing kinship with Turgenev over the years and his lifelong passion for Russia....more details Format:Audio cassette
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ISBN:9780732031138
Following in the footsteps of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev through Germany, France and finally Russia, Dessaix talks to his readers not just about this superb novelist and his books but about his own growing kinship with Turgenev over the years and his lifelong passion for Russia....more details Format:CD-Audio
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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9780743263382
In this biography, travel book and memoir, Robert Dessaix looks at the life and work of this great Russian author, and sees the moment when our idea of love changed....more details Format:Hardback Pages:320
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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9781593760632
Together with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev was one of the leading novelists of Russia's Golden Age and the first Russian writer to capture a Western audience. No less sensational than his novels was his personal life. For forty years...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:275
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Robert Dessaix
ISBN:9780330364997
Following in the footsteps of the Russian writer Ivan Turgenev through Germany, France and finally Russia, Dessaix talks to his readers not just about this superb novelist and his books but about his own growing kinship with Turgenev over the years and his lifelong passion for Russia....more details Format:Hardback Pages:336
Robert Dessaix has had his own forty year relationship whith Turgenev and his work, first as a student of Russian, then as a tutor and now as an old friend. A truly remarkable work of memoir...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:300