Night letters
Subtitle: a journey through Switzerland and Italy
By: Robert Dessaix ; edited and annotated by Igor Miazmov.
Contributors: Miazmov, Igor.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: A Wyatt Book for St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
Subjects: Australians -- Switzerland -- Fiction.; Australians -- Italy -- Fiction.; Terminally ill -- Fiction.; Gay men -- Fiction.; Switzerland -- Fiction.; Italy -- Fiction.
Description: For twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, a traveler, recently diagnosed with an incurable illness, writes a letter home to a friend. He describes the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made across northern Italy from Switzerland, while reflecting on questions of mortality, seduction, and the search for paradise. Robert Dessaix creates a compelling and ultimately uplifting account of a life enriched by a heightened sense of mortality.