Title: Night Letters
First published: 1996
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. Against a rich background of earlier journeys in literature, notably Mann's Death in Venice, Robert Dessaix creates a compelling and ultimately uplifting account of a life enriched by a heightened sense of mortality.
Subjects: Fiction, Australians, Terminally ill, Gay men, Travelers, Letters, Fiction, general, Switzerland, fiction, Italy, fiction, Gay men, fiction, Travel
Places: Switzerland, Italy, Venice