The silver moon : reflections on life, death and writing / Bryce Courtenay.

By: Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012 [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Melbourne, Vic. : Penguin Books Australia, 2014Description: xv, 123 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780670078264 :; 0670078263Subject(s): Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012 | Courtenay, Bryce, 1933-2012 | Reflections in literature | Reflections in literature | Death | Life | Writing | Authors, Australian -- 21st century -- Anecdotes | Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Anecdotes | Reflections in literature -- Essays | Writing | Life | Death | AustralianGenre/Form: Essays, Australian -- 21st century DDC classification: A823.3 LOC classification: PR9619.3.C5964
Partial contents:
The thinking well -- Where the giraffe comes to drink from the silver bowl of the moon -- Timmy : the dog of dogs -- I believe this -- Muschka : the needy one -- Words -- This talk is about words -- The doorstop -- How to write a work of popular fiction -- The thing that makes me happiest -- Tap-dancing facts -- Music -- The unfortunate process of dying slowly -- And God created a flower and named it after the sun.
Summary: The Silver Moon gathers together some of the most personal and sustaining life-lessons from Australia's favourite storyteller. In short stories and insights, many written in his final months, Bryce reflects on living and dying, and how through determination, respect for others and taking pleasure in small moments of joy, he tried to make the most out of life.
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The thinking well -- Where the giraffe comes to drink from the silver bowl of the moon -- Timmy : the dog of dogs -- I believe this -- Muschka : the needy one -- Words -- This talk is about words -- The doorstop -- How to write a work of popular fiction -- The thing that makes me happiest -- Tap-dancing facts -- Music -- The unfortunate process of dying slowly -- And God created a flower and named it after the sun.

The Silver Moon gathers together some of the most personal and sustaining life-lessons from Australia's favourite storyteller. In short stories and insights, many written in his final months, Bryce reflects on living and dying, and how through determination, respect for others and taking pleasure in small moments of joy, he tried to make the most out of life.

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