Short Black 1 The Australian Disease

On the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Popular Culture
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Author: Richard Flangan ISBN: 9781921870491
Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd Publication: September 23, 2015
Imprint: Black Inc. Short Blacks Language: English
Author: Richard Flangan
ISBN: 9781921870491
Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd
Publication: September 23, 2015
Imprint: Black Inc. Short Blacks
Language: English

Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness – Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il’s haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile achieved with the aid of collagen made from skin flensed from dead Chinese convicts.

The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan’s perceptive, hilarious, searing exposé of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful.

Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind

Richard Flanagan’s most recent novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness – Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il’s haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile achieved with the aid of collagen made from skin flensed from dead Chinese convicts.

The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan’s perceptive, hilarious, searing exposé of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful.

Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind

Richard Flanagan’s most recent novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North won the 2014 Man Booker Prize.

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