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The Simplest Words

A storyteller's journey

Alex Miller

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English
Allen & Unwin
26 October 2016
From one of Australia's greatest novelists comes this fine collection, a storyteller's journey. These short stories and essays, written over the last forty years, comprise an insightful and intelligent meditation on the life of the novelist and the culture of contemporary Australia. Personal and intimate as many of these pieces are, this collection forms a kind of assured autobiography, of the sort that only Alex Miller could write...

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Imprint:   Allen & Unwin
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   420g
ISBN:   9781760294052
ISBN 10:   1760294055
Pages:   368
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Recommended Age:   From
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

The Simplest Words is Alex Miller's first collection of stories, memoir, commentary and poetry...All of Alex Miller's novels have been critically acclaimed and have won or been shortlisted in the major Australian literary awards. He is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and is an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for The Ancestor Game. His eleventh and most recent novel, Coal Creek, won the 2014 Victorian Premier's Literary Award...Alex Miller is published internationally and his works have been widely translated...www.alexmiller.com.au

Reviews for The Simplest Words: A storyteller's journey

-A triumph.- --Tim Winton, author, Dirt Music, on Coal Creek -A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty.- --Michael Ondaatje on The Ancestor Game -Alex Miller has an extraordinary ability to uncover the connections among people--individuals, races, nations.- --Elizabeth Kostova, author, The Historian A triumph. Tim Winton, author, Dirt Music, on Coal Creek A wonderful novel of stunning intricacy and great beauty. Michael Ondaatje on The Ancestor Game Alex Miller has an extraordinary ability to uncover the connections among people individuals, races, nations. Elizabeth Kostova, author, The Historian


  • Winner of Melbourne Prize for Literature 2012 (Australia)

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