Bob Carr

My Reading Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Welcome to my library.
Dog-eared paperbacks falling to pieces.
Second-hand books from the stores and barrows of four continents.
Modern first editions, some inscribed ...

In My Reading Life, a personal investigation into the nature of democracy, dictatorship, decency and the hardwired human condition, Bob Carr shares his profound love of books and reading - books you've never heard of, books you've always wanted to read, books you will rediscover afresh. Here are the essential clues to devouring Tolstoy, Proust, Flaubert, Solzhenitsyn and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

From the social comedies of Anthony Powell and Patrick White and the tragedies of Sophocles and Shakespeare, to the twentieth century's darkest moment - Auschwitz - powerfully recounted by Primo Levi in If This Is a Man, Carr invites us to discover the most important testaments to the highs and lows of human nature. He discovers, through his great love of the written word, that decency can survive the greatest tests, giving us all cause for hope.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Australia
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781742282176
• Artikelnr.: 62420731

Autorenporträt

Bob Carr grew up in his electorate of Maroubra, attended the University of New South Wales and worked as a journalist on the ABC and The Bulletin before being elected in 1983 to the State seat of Maroubra. In 1988 he was elected unopposed as Leader of the Opposition, and in 1995 he became the 13th Labor Premier of New South Wales. His book Thoughtlines was published to critical acclaim in 2002.