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The Simplest Words: A Storyteller´s Journey
Alex Miller
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Description for The Simplest Words: A Storyteller´s Journey
Hardback. A selection of short pieces - both fiction and non-fiction - from one of Australia's greatest literary treasures. Num Pages: 304 pages, Integrated throughout. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 243 x 36. Weight in Grams: 634.
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimate as many of these pieces are, this collection forms a kind of assured autobiography, of the sort that only Alex Miller could write. Alex Miller's stories are told with a rare level of wisdom and profundity, engaging the intellect and the emotions simultaneously. Stories are, after all, in his blood.
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimate as many of these pieces are, this collection forms a kind of assured autobiography, of the sort that only Alex Miller could write. Alex Miller's stories are told with a rare level of wisdom and profundity, engaging the intellect and the emotions simultaneously. Stories are, after all, in his blood.
Product Details
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
St Leonards, Australia
ISBN
9781743313572
SKU
V9781743313572
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Ref
99-10
About Alex Miller
Alex Miller has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize; the first occasion in 1993 for The Ancestor Game, and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. British by birth, he now lives in Victoria.
Reviews for The Simplest Words: A Storyteller´s Journey
A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty.
Michael Ondaatje on The Ancestor Game Coal Creek is a triumph.
Tim Winton on Coal Creek Miller reveals most clearly the delicacy of his understanding of human nature...[a] tactful and intelligent writer.
The Guardian on Lovesong
Miller's novel is in many respects his best yet, a compelling ... Read more
Michael Ondaatje on The Ancestor Game Coal Creek is a triumph.
Tim Winton on Coal Creek Miller reveals most clearly the delicacy of his understanding of human nature...[a] tactful and intelligent writer.
The Guardian on Lovesong
Miller's novel is in many respects his best yet, a compelling ... Read more