Death and distraction

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  • Published 20110301
  • ISBN: 9781921656996
  • Extent: 264 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

Selected for The Best Australian Essays 2011

HER SUBJECT IS distraction. She’s written a book about it, published by one of those intimidating American academic houses. She’s American and has that attractive twangy accent I can never place. South coast? Boston? With her, though, it’s not about the accent. She’s very, very smart and the Radio National interviewer is very, very taken with her.

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