A Life in Words. Collected Writings from Gallipoli to the Melbourne Cup

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 450 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The collected writing of one of Australias most admired authors and journalists, Les Carlyon.Les Carlyon has died, and Australia has lost one of its greatest wordsmiths. Greg Baum, The AgeHes been called Australias Damon Runyon, but that tag is far too limiting to do him justice. Certainly his turf stories are usually character-driven gems. But read him on Anzac Cove, or Bradman, or Ted Whitten, or any part of the essence of this country. He writes with gritty elegance. Harry GordonLes Carlyon was one of Australias greatest journalists and writers. His career in newspapers was stellar - he became editor of The Age at 33, and went on to become editor in chief of The Herald & Weekly Times. But he was always much more about the written word than about management, winning two Walkley Awards and the coveted Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year Award in a career where he covered everything from politics to horse racing.Yet most Australians will know him as an author, writing books that gave 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 account 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 international bestseller, and his sequel, The Great War (2006), won the Prime Ministers Prize for Australian History, and was the 2007 Australian Book Industry Book of the Year. The Master (2012), an intimate portrait of Bart Cummings, cemented Less place as Australias greatest-ever horse racing writer.From Don Bradman to Paul Keating, from Flemington to Flanders, from Henry Lawson to Clive James, A Life in Words is a collection of Less very best writing, taken from across his career.

ISBN: 9781760879723