On Beauty

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title On Beauty
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Susan Johnson
SeriesOn Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:96
Dimensions(mm): Height 111,Width 150
Category/GenreLiterary essays
ISBN/Barcode 9780733643828
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Hachette Australia
Imprint Hachette Australia
Publication Date 1 March 2020
Publication Country Australia

Description

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'.

Author Biography

Susan Johnson is an Australian journalist and novelist, based in London. Her books include the novels Flying Lessons, shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award, A Big Life, The Broken Book, Life in Seven Mistakes and My Hundred Lovers, and the memoir A Better Woman, shortlisted for the National Biography Award.