The best Australian essays 2009
By: edited by Robyn Davidson
Publisher: Black Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Melbourne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781863954518
Subjects: Australian essays; Speeches, addresses, etc., Australian
Other titles: Best Australian essays two thousand and nine
Description: These essays capture and illuminate the themes of an eventful year, demonstrating the quality of our writers across a range of topics as well as the vitality of the essay as a form of commentary, analysis and exploration.
Table of contents: title: Boxing for Palm Island  -- Chloe Hooper; title: Silent Country  -- Tim Winton; title: Darwins big idea  -- Nicholas Rothwell; title: Third wave  -- Tim Flannery; title: Home truth  -- Kate Jennings; title: Up from the mission  -- Noel Pearson; title: What're yer lookin' at yer fuckin' dog?  -- Kevin Brophy; title: Out of our comfort zone  -- Gideon Haigh; title: Uncle Ross  -- Desmond Kelly; title: Once a financial anchor  -- Kate Jennings; title: Indian Ocean solution  -- David Marr; title: A fox, a whale and a dead spider  -- Annabel Crabb; title: Why weren't we warned?  -- Robert Manne; title: How we cheated flames of death  -- Gary Hughes; title: Case of Radovan Karadzic  -- Justine McGill; title: Who stole the soul of the boy from Indiana?  -- Peter Conrad; title: Laugh, kookaburra  -- David Sedaris; title: Grand illusion  -- Robert Dessaix; title: Amongst the living dead  -- Benjamin Law; title: Element of need  -- James Bradley; title: Death duties  -- Richard Castles; title: Lost women found  -- Robert Forster; title: Grande polonaise  -- Anna Goldsworthy; title: Two portraits  -- Louis Nowra; title: Experience of literary translation  -- Simon Lews; title: Ian Fairweather and abstraction  -- Murray Bail; title: Monet's posterity  -- Terence Maloon; title: Death of the Good Father  -- Dursilla Modjeska; title: Music's centurions  -- Andrew Ford; title: Making of Samuel Beckett  -- J. M. Coetzee; title: Wider world in their sights  -- Geordie Williamson; title: Virginia Woolf's brain  -- Ann-Marie Priest; title: Nose prose  -- Angus Trumble; title: With Stendhal -- Simon Leys.