My Country: Stories, Essays and Speeches by David Marr

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition.Ex library copy with no external stickers. Partial date due slip on inside page now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Wear to book corners and edges. Dust jacket has creasing at edges and at spine. Scuff marks to covers. Interior and binding are still very good

My Country includes David Marr's early works, such as his review of the first Rocky Horror Picture Show and his reporting on the 1978 Mardi Gras police bashings, all the way to the most piercing accounts of Kevin Rudd's ratf?king and Tony Abbott's punch. Along the way there is Patrick White, Garfield Barwick, asylum seekers, the Henson case, Pauline Hanson, Cardinal Pell and more.

My Country anthologises Marr's powerful reflections on religion, sex, censorship and the law; striking accounts of leaders, moralists and scandalmongers; elegant ruminations on the arts and the lives of artists. And there are some memorable new pieces, including the remarkable story of David Marr's wedding day.