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Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives - SIGNED by Robert Dessaix
57.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so strongly to t ...Show more
Arabesques: A tale of double lives by Robert Dessaix
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, France, 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, he set off to recapture what it was that once drew him so stron ...Show more
Corfu by Robert Dessaix
27.95 NZD
32.95 (15% off)
Category: Fiction
'House in Gastouri for rent for 2 mths. Occupant travelling. Reasonable rent.' In a village on the island of Corfu, alone in the cottage of a man he
The Time of Our Lives: Growing Older Well by Robert Dessaix
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At the height of his powers in this remarkable (and often witty) book, Robert Dessaix addresses these increasingly urgent questions in inimitable prose and comes up with some surprising answers. From Java to Hobart via Berlin, Dessaix invites us to eavesdrop on his intimate, no-nonsense conversations ab ...Show more
Twilight of Love - Travels with Turgenev by Robert Dessaix
45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alongside his friends Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, Turgenev was one of the three great men of the Russian novelâÂÂs golden age. Fathers and Sons and A HunterâÂÂs Notes caused sensations when they were published; by depicting serfs as human beings, the latter was said to have persuaded the Tsar to free ...Show more
What Days Are For by Robert Dessaix
24.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Witty, acerbic, insightful musings from Robert Dessaix, one of Australia's finest writers. One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and ...Show more
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