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Bob Ellis
This book honours Ellis’s illustrious and prodigious writing legacy: it’s a keepsake for long time Ellis fans that will also win him many new admirers. Bob Ellis: In His Own Words showcases the best of Ellis's celebrated and much-loved essays, speeches, diaries and scripts, in addition to previously unpublished work, archival photos, and reflections from close friends and family. Compiled by Anne Brooksbank, this collection contains all the wit, acuity and forthrightness that we have come to expect from this inimitable wordsmith. "This is the memoir that Ellis - although neither he nor anyone else knew it - had been writing all along." Erik Jensen "The inestimable Elils teaches us that no one should ever be ashamed of their bleeding heart." Marieke Hardy "Bob Ellis is not merely the finest prose writer Australia has produced, he is probably the finest three or four of them." Guy Rundle
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Growing Up Alone
"Bob Ellis is a great story-teller! Born the eldest of fourteen children, with a father damaged by polio and a mother perpetually pregnant, Bob Ellis tells us "I felt orphaned within my family."Gifted with both a remarkable memory and an extraordinary way with words, Bob takes us on a journey through his chaotic childhood, his tormented adolescence, to the moment where he stands on the threshold of adulthood.As we see him take more and more delight (and refuge) in the natural world around him, we witness the roots of the Bob Ellis we knew and loved: devoted naturalist, wildlife artist, meditative spirit, political activist.
The Ellis Laws
In these witty, outrageous ten laws, the well-beloved gadfly, sage and wordsmith Bob Ellis investigates dislocation and security, competence and charisma, youth and old age. He explains why bicycles encourage premarital sex, moving house too many times drives humans mad, 'the rising price of a roof ' is the root of all economic evil, and, most ominously, 'power flows to the most boring man in the room'. He alleges, pretty persuasively, that all CEOs – except, perhaps, George Lucas – should be sacked, fined or imprisoned. This is a book to cherish, re-read and pass on to generations less informed of how humans were at the turn of the millennium, and how much they got wrong.
Papers of Bob Ellis
MS Acc00/35 comprises papers relating to Ellis's book, Goodbye Jerusalem: night thoughts of a Labor outsider, published in 1997 (3 cartons).
The Year it All Fell Down
'A very readable, occasionally apocalyptic, almanac of ''interesting times.''' The Age 'He writes beautifully and his ability to pick out the human stories among the headlines is what makes the book worth reading.' Weekly Times '????? He...write[s] like an angel, albeit an avenging one with a taste for the salacious.' Good Reading In 2011, history was made and the future broken... One of our most incisive and eloquent observers, Bob Ellis has reviewed the occurrences of 2011 and found it to be a year as important as 1848. He and his collaborators, Damian Spruce and Stephen Ramsey, refresh and repopulate our memories with enormous events already half-forgotten, revealing their coherence and r...
And So it Went
'One of the better books on our time and the fools we have lately survived. Like War and Peace and the Iliad, it is abundant, instructive, exhilarating and cathartic.' BOB CARR From the suicide bombing of Glasgow Airport and the flooding of England to the horse flu and the Chinese earthquake and the Bhutto assassination, from the rise of Turnbull and Rudd to the slow disintegration of Howard, Ruddock, Olmert, Blair, Musharreff, Mugabe, Costello, Nelson, Buswell and Bush, from the campaign insults of Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin to the great economic meltdown and the night of Obama's audacious victory, Bob Ellis took notes, attended funerals, went to the cricket, wrote mordant midnight verse, walked his dogs and pondered on humanity's most formative interim in quite a while. No better meditation on the Iraq war's backwash and the propaganda weapons of the Right has been thus far attempted, no wittier essay on human mortality, the planet's fate, and the melancholy harvest of Australia's most rancorous political years. And So It Went is a book to read and savour.
