Publication

2018 - Monash University Publishing

Language

English

Word Count

128,000 words, Guess

Page Count

512 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781925377279
  • ISBN-10192537727X
  • Better World Books9781925377279
  • Open LibraryOL33521536M

Description

This collection of essays, variously published in Australia, India and London, includes 'satellites' of his major works--such as Sitting In (1992), a landmark memoir in Labour History; Broken Song: TGH Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession (2002), a literary biography on Aboriginal and frontier poetics; and Peacemongers (2014), a pilgrimage book about Rabindranath Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi in the years leading up to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Other essays are new: 'Brecht's Song', on his working-class mother; 'Dark Star', an expansion of his meeting with Christina Stead on her 80th birthday; 'Loving Roughneck', his critical appreciation of John Berger; and 'On the Edge of the Cliff', on his private meeting with the Dalai Lama in the Blue Mountains. As has been the case with his book-length works, Hill's essays collected here are ground-breaking: freshly, deeply researched, genre-crossing, multi-disciplinary, combining the candidly personal with the philosophical.

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Other Editions

  • Reason and Lovelessness: Essays, Encounters, Reviews 1980-2017Monash University Publishing2018-01-01

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