Phillipa McGuinness

The Year Everything Changed (eBook, ePUB)

2001

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The book's 12 chapters ransack the memory, experience and expertise of a formidable cast of contributors. To cover (among much else) Donald Bradman in February, the stolen generation in April, high finance and misdemeanours in June, refugees and Tampa in August, Afghanistan in October, elections in November, she has used the vast resource of academics, former journalists and one-time public servants who were on the spot at the time, or who have accredited specialist knowledge. In consequence, each chapter blends vivid reportage with an analytic depth that makes one stop and examine one's own prejudices. Her factual cross-hatching is scrupulous.
One is always aware of McGuinness' liberal stance, but she allows her sources to speak for themselves, sometimes in surprising and revelatory ways. The scope of the book is huge, and its pace relentless, but it is always engaging, always building towards a new understanding, never a confirmation of received views.It could be read across generations - to inform, to pique an interest in history, to spark memory and to help one hope. I trust it will be.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Australia
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780143782421
• Artikelnr.: 56983817

Autorenporträt

Phillipa McGuinness is the author of The Year Everything Changed-2001, shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature, and the editor of Copyfight. She has written for The Guardian, the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, Meanjin and Inside Story. A former book publisher, she lives in Sydney.