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Chameleon
Dessaix, Robert, 1944-2025
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Robert Dessaix's testament to a wonderful life is funny, incisive and literary. His voice is completely distinctive and utterly compelling. Robert Dessaix's Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story to story, Dessaix describes an identity in flux- his beginnings as an adopted child named Thomas Robert Jones, his youthful interest in religious thinking, his obsession with all things Russian, his marriage to Lisa and divorce, his discovery of travel. In North Africa he finds different ways of feeling and being, and in Australia he begins his abiding relationship with his partner Peter Timms. At every point he muses on pleasure, art, sex, literature, infatuation, happiness, music, life, death and all the rest. Chameleon is a virtuoso performance of self-revelation, as Dessaix explores how the restless mind takes constant detours to search for what makes life good, a place of wisdom and love.
Main title:
Chameleon / Robert Dessaix.
Author:
Dessaix, Robert, 1944-, author
Work:
Imprint:
Wurundjeri Country ; Melbourne, Victoria : The Text Publishing Company, 2025.©2025.
Collation:
265 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A memoir of art, travel, ideas and love"--Cover.
ISBN:
9781923058279 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A828.309B/DES
Language:
English
BRN:
2419128