Robert Dessaix
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In which four dead Russians give us a masterclass in writing and life by George Saunders
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The SS Officer’s Armchair: In search of a hidden life by Daniel Lee
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The Time of Our Lives: Growing older well by Robert Dessaix
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On the day that Robert Dessaix first came face to face with his birth mother, he was already in his mid-forties. Adopted as a newborn baby in 1944 by a couple who loved and cared for him through his childhood and adolescence, he had grown up in Sydney, had invented his own imaginary land with its own language, had been married for twelve years, divorced, negotiated ...
Robert Dessaix is a writer, broadcaster, essayist, and memoirist. His best-known books are the autobiography A Mother's Disgrace (1994), the novels Night Letters (1996) and Corfu (2001), and the travel ...
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