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Praise for Little Books on Big ThemesThere's no denying the attractiveness of these little essay-length books .

Nor could any fair-minded person argue with the publishing brilliance of having essays of this kind by writers of this quality or of this degree of fame or interest .

This is a ravishing quartet of essays, grander and more variegated than we have seen anyone bring together in ages.Peter Craven, The AustralianIt's hard to think of any other essay series that could bring together the Holocaust, Aboriginal dispossession, a writer's longing for a former prime minister and a Melbourne teenager conducting Mahler in his bedroom with a plastic chopstick.Jane Sullivan, The AgeLittle Books on Big Themes, re-packages an old-fashioned and unsexy genre to make essays modish and exciting.Fiona Gruber, Weekend Australian

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Melbourne University Press
0522857205 / 9780522857207
Paperback / softback
824
30/12/2009
Australia
312 pages
158 x 235 mm