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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 On Beauty
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'In On Beauty Susan Johnson explores the role of beauty in our lives, and in her life in particular: "Sometimes I think my whole life has been one long search for beauty. I am Australian and as such I should be embarrassed to write a line like that, in a land where one must speak of beauty in whispers." She writes of where her search has taken her, how "beauty enters the body like desire", and how beauty is nothing less than "life's call to order, life's bid to save it from itself".' (Publisher's blurb)

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A Joy Forever Susan Johnson , 2009 extract essay (On Beauty)
— Appears in: The Age , 2 May 2009; (p. 12-13)
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Works about this Work

More Than a Simple Beauty Contest Richard King , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 June 2009; (p. 25, 27)
— Review of On Beauty Susan Johnson , 2009 single work essay
Objects of Desire and Derision Richard King , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 June 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of On Beauty Susan Johnson , 2009 single work essay
On with the Show : Deep Joys Await Ken Haley , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 June 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of On Resilience Elisabeth Wynhausen , 2009 single work essay ; On Humbug Robert Dessaix , 2009 single work essay ; On Privilege Julian Burnside , 2009 single work essay ; On Beauty Susan Johnson , 2009 single work essay ; On Doubt Leigh Sales , 2009 single work essay
On with the Show : Deep Joys Await Ken Haley , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 June 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of On Resilience Elisabeth Wynhausen , 2009 single work essay ; On Humbug Robert Dessaix , 2009 single work essay ; On Privilege Julian Burnside , 2009 single work essay ; On Beauty Susan Johnson , 2009 single work essay ; On Doubt Leigh Sales , 2009 single work essay
Objects of Desire and Derision Richard King , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 June 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of On Beauty Susan Johnson , 2009 single work essay
More Than a Simple Beauty Contest Richard King , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 June 2009; (p. 25, 27)
— Review of On Beauty Susan Johnson , 2009 single work essay
VIEW ALL WORKS ABOUT (3)
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