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As I Was Saying
  • Published: 1 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742753072
  • Imprint: Vintage Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.99
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As I Was Saying

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'This is a teasing grab-bag of thoughts, memories, anecdotes and effronteries that achieves luxurious coherence.' -- Weekend Australian

'This is a teasing grab-bag of thoughts, memories, anecdotes and effronteries that achieves luxurious coherence.' -- Weekend Australian

As I Was Saying is a swirling conversation with the reader on everything from travel to dogs and cats, from sport and swearing to the pleasures of idleness. Punctuated at regular intervals by talks Dessaix has given on a wide range of subjects, as well as by some of his most incisive journalism, the conversation invites the reader to join a leisurely guided tour of his chamber of curiosities, featuring pieces collected all over the globe from across the centuries.

Whether writing home from Vladivostock or Damascus, discussing what makes for good conversation or thinking aloud about the paintings, poems and books he loves, Dessaix always writes with an intimacy and attentiveness that beguile, entertain and make his readers eager for new discoveries.
  • Published: 1 March 2012
  • ISBN: 9781742753072
  • Imprint: Vintage Australia
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 224
  • RRP: $34.99
Categories:

About the author

Robert Dessaix

Robert Dessaix is a writer, translator and broadcaster whose best-known books are the autobiography A Mother’s Disgrace, the novels Night Letters and Corfu, and the travel memoirs Twilight of Love and Arabesques. From 1985 to 1995 he presented the weekly ‘Books and Writing’ program on ABC Radio National. His books have been published in a number of languages. His most recent publications are his memoirs What Days Are For (a meditation on what makes for a good life in the face of death), and The Time of Our Lives (which focuses on ageing well), along with Abracadabra, a collection of his recent writings. He lives in Hobart, Tasmania.
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Praise for As I Was Saying

It is a wonderfully rich and challenging piece. This book is energised with colour and the virtuosity of language. It is a book to muse over by taking a walk.

Christopher Bantick, Sunday Magazine, Hobart

This is a teasing grab-bag of thoughts, memories, anecdotes and effronteries that achieves luxurious coherence.

Gillian Wills, Weekend Australian

In an era where the art of good conversation is replaced by tweets and status updates, Dessaix represents a refreshing blast from the good old days when thoughts longer than 140 characters actually mattered.

William Verity, Illawarra Mercury