My Country: Stories, Essays & Speeches
Author: Marr, David
ISBN: 9781760640804
Publisher: Black Inc
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 576
Dimensions: 242mm x 166mm x 53mm
Format: Hardback
Description
An anthology of David Marr's powerful ruminations on art, religion, sex, censorship and the law, his unflinching profiles of party leaders and forensic accounts of social and political controversy.
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time.
My Country collects his powerful reflections on religion, sex, censorship and the law; striking accounts of leaders, moralists and scandalmongers; elegant ruminations on the arts and the lives of artists. And some memorable new pieces.
'My country is the subject that interests me most and I have spent my career trying to untangle it's mysteries.' -David Marr.
ISBN: 9781760640804
Publisher: Black Inc
Year First Published: 2018
Pages: 576
Dimensions: 242mm x 166mm x 53mm
Format: Hardback
Description
An anthology of David Marr's powerful ruminations on art, religion, sex, censorship and the law, his unflinching profiles of party leaders and forensic accounts of social and political controversy.
David Marr is the rarest of breeds- one of Australia's most unflinching, forensic reporters of political controversy, and one of its most subtle and eloquent biographers. In Marr's hands, those things we call reportage and commentary are elevated to artful and illuminating chronicles of our time.
My Country collects his powerful reflections on religion, sex, censorship and the law; striking accounts of leaders, moralists and scandalmongers; elegant ruminations on the arts and the lives of artists. And some memorable new pieces.
'My country is the subject that interests me most and I have spent my career trying to untangle it's mysteries.' -David Marr.
