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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 What Days Are For
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'One Sunday night in Sydney, Robert Dessaix collapses in a gutter in Darlinghurst, and is helped to his hotel by a kind young man wearing a T-shirt that says FUCK YOU. What follows are weeks in hospital, tubes and cannulae puncturing his body, as he recovers from the heart attack threatening daily to kill him.

'While lying in the hospital bed, Robert chances upon Philip Larkin's poem 'Days'. What, he muses, have his days been for? What and who has he loved – and why?

'This is vintage Robert Dessaix. His often surprisingly funny recollections range over topics as eclectic as intimacy, travel, spirituality, enchantment, language and childhood, all woven through with a heightened sense of mortality. ' (Publication summary)

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Notes

  • Dedication: To Susan Varga and to the sixty years of our friendship.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 2014 .
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      Extent: 240p.
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      • Published 3 November 2014
      ISBN: 9780857985767

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Works about this Work

What I’m Reading Stuart Barnes , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2016;
Meditations on Life, Death and Quest for Enchantment Deborah Bogle , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 March 2015; (p. 24)
Robert Dessaix : What Days Are For Stephen Sargent , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2015;

— Review of What Days Are For Robert Dessaix , 2014 single work autobiography
Rolling Downhill Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2015;

— Review of What Days Are For Robert Dessaix , 2014 single work autobiography
Robert Dessaix's New Memoir Delia Falconer , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 367 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of What Days Are For Robert Dessaix , 2014 single work autobiography
Heart of the Ineffable Agnes Nieuwenhuizen , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 November 2014; (p. 19)

— Review of What Days Are For Robert Dessaix , 2014 single work autobiography
Joyous Journey Drawn from a Hospital Bed Restoration Man Susan Wyndham , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 November 2014; (p. 16) The Canberra Times , 16 November 2014; (p. 26)

— Review of What Days Are For Robert Dessaix , 2014 single work autobiography
Good Ways to Be Old : Dessaix Looks Back A. P. Riemer , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6 December 2014; (p. 41) The Saturday Age , 6-7 December 2014; (p. 33)

— Review of What Days Are For Robert Dessaix , 2014 single work autobiography
Robert Dessaix's New Memoir Delia Falconer , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 367 2014; (p. 21)

— Review of What Days Are For Robert Dessaix , 2014 single work autobiography
Rolling Downhill Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , March 2015;

— Review of What Days Are For Robert Dessaix , 2014 single work autobiography
Meditations on Life, Death and Quest for Enchantment Deborah Bogle , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 March 2015; (p. 24)
What I’m Reading Stuart Barnes , 2016 single work column
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2016;
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