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Agamemnon's Kiss: Selected Essays

By Inga Clendinnen

Book information

Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Year
2007
ISBN
9781921776502, 9781921145865
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
633 kB (648019 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-22 12:16:34
Biography & Autobiography; History; Language Arts;

Description

Agamemnon's Kiss is a moving selection of essays by one of Australia's most celebrated writers. Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death. And she writes movingly about other people who have changed her own life. Many of the themes which are central to Clendinnen's work are teased out in Agamemnon's Kiss: the question of race relations in Australia, the way we think about the Holocaust and its perpetrators, and the investigative power of history. 'This is a beautiful book and it will nourish almost every kind of reader like manna from heaven.' Peter Craven, Age

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