9781760879723 - a life in words: collected writings from gallipoli to the melbourne cup (2 Ergebnisse)
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 464 pages. The collected writing of one of Australia's most admired authors and journali sts, Les Carlyon.'Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths.' Greg Baum, The Age'He's been called Australia's Da mon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice.… Certainly his tu rf stories are usually character-driven gems. But read him on Anzac Cove, or Bra dman, or Ted Whitten, or any part of the essence of this country. He writes with gritty elegance.' Harry GordonLes Carlyon was one of Australia's greates t journalists and writers. His career in newspapers was stellar - he became edit or of The Age at 33, and went on to become editor in chief of The Herald & W eekly Times. But he was always much more about the written word than about manag ement, winning two Walkley Awards and the coveted Graham Perkin Journalist of th e Year Award in a career where he covered everything from politics to horse raci ng.Yet most Australians will know him as an author, writing books that ga ve us the very essence of our history and our culture - as though he was in the trenches of the Western Front, or in the betting ring at Flemington. His epic ac count of the first ANZAC campaign, Gallipoli (2001), was truly ground-breaking, combining incredible research and an ability to capture the human essence with a style that was distinctively his own. Gallipoli went on to become an internatio nal bestseller, and his sequel, The Great War (2006), won the Prime Minister's P rize for Australian History, and was the 2007 Australian Book Industry Book of t he Year. The Master (2012), an intimate portrait of Bart Cummings, cemented Les' s place as Australia's greatest-ever horse racing writer.From Don Bradman.
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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has some light creasing at edges and spine. Interior and binding are also very good. From Don Bradman to Paul Keating, Flemington to Flanders, Henry Lawson to Clive James, A L…ife in Words is a collection of Les's best writing, taken from across his career.
