Robert Dessaix

As I Was Saying (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In an era where the art of good conversation is replaced by tweets and status updates, Dessaix represents a refreshing blast from the good old days when thoughts longer than 140 characters actually mattered.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Australia
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742753089
• Artikelnr.: 38343867

Autorenporträt

Robert Dessaix is a writer, translator, broadcaster and occasional essayist. From 1985 to 1995, after teaching Russian language and literature for many years at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales, he presented the weekly Books and Writing program on ABC Radio National. In more recent years he has also presented radio series on Australian public intellectuals and great travellers in history, as well as regular programs on language.

His best-known books, all translated into several European languages, are his autobiography A Mother's Disgrace; the novels Night Letters and Corfu; a collection of essays and short stories (And So Forth); and the travel memoirs Twilight of Love and Arabesques. A full-time writer since 1995, Robert Dessaix lives in Hobart, Tasmania.