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The Idea of Home Author: Geraldine Brooks

ISBN: 9780733330254 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 107 Published: 13 December 2011 Country of Publication: AU Dimensions (cm): 13.2 x 20.9 x 0.8 Description: For the Boyer Lecture 2011, best-selling author and journalist Geraldine Brooks tackles the topic of The Idea of Home.

Drawing on her personal experience from being an adolescent pen pal to being a foreign correspondent in some of the worlds most dangerous countries to being a writer of several award winning books including the Pulitzer Prize winner, March.

Brooks reflects on what it means to be both a global citizen and a novelist at home in an increasingly fractured world.

The individual lectures are: Our Only Home, A Home on Bland Street, A Writer at Home and At Home in the World

About the Author

Geraldine Brooks is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning March, Year of Wonders, and the non-fiction works Nine Parts of Desire and Foreign Correspondence. Previously, Brooks was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bosnia, Somalia, and the Middle East. Born and raised in Australia, she divides her time between Sydney and Martha's Vineyard, Massach...

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