Australia Day

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: HarperCollins
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 251 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: As uncomfortable as it is, we need to reckon with our history. On January 26, no Australian can really look away.Since publishing his critically acclaimed, Walkley Award-winning, bestselling memoir Talking to My Country in early 2016, Stan Grant has been crossing the country, talking to huge crowds everywhere about how racism is at the heart of our history and the Australian dream. But Stan knows this is not where the story ends.In this book, Australia Day , his long-awaited follow up to Talking to My Country , Stan talks about our country, about who we are as a nation, about the indigenous struggle for belonging and identity in Australia, and what it means to be Australian. A sad, wise, beautiful, reflective and troubled book, Australia Day asks the questions that have to be asked, that no else seems to be asking. Who are we What is our country How do we move forward from herePraise for Talking to MyA story so essential and salutary to this place that it should be given out free at the ballot box The AustralianDeeply disturbing, profoundly moving Hobart MercuryGrant will be an important voice in shaping this nation The Saturday PaperTalking to My Country won the 2016 Walkley Book Award and the Special Award at the 2016 Heritage Awards, and was shortlisted in the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, the Nib Waverley Library Awards and the 2017 ABIA Awards.

ISBN: 9781460759974