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The Best Australian Essays 2015

✍ Scribed by Williamson, Geordie (editor)

Book ID: 109333954
Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd
Tongue: English
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9781863957779

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✦ Synopsis

'Wonky, idiosyncratic, fragmentary, paradoxical, drunk on words, the essay has . . . a uniquely human thumbprint.' --Geordie Williamson
In The Best Australian Essays 2015 , Geordie Williamson compiles the year's outstanding short non-fiction. Read Helen Garner on condescension, DBC Pierre on travel, Ceridwen Dovey on autobiography, Tim Winton on injury, Anna Krien on first love, and Nicolas Rothwell on the northern coast. With bracing essays on politics, music, literature, history, art, sport and more, this impressive anthology will entrance, stimulate and entertain.
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Anwen Crawford
Maria Tumarkin
Tim Flannery
Nadia Wheatley
James Bradley
Tim Winton
Gerard Elson
Rebecca Giggs
Alison Croggon
Mungo MacCallum
Sophie Cunningham
Jeff Sparrow
Nicolas Rothwell
Karen Hitchcock
Tegan Bennett Daylight
Drusilla Modjeska
Noel Pearson
Delia Falconer
Kirsten...

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