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A shortish homage to Geoffrey Blainey.(A Shorter History of Australia, A Short History of the World and A Short History of the Twentieth Century)
BETWEEN 1994 AND 2005, and the ages of sixty-four and seventy-five, Geoffrey Blainey published three outstanding literary works, A Shorter History of Australia, A Short History of the World and A Short History of the Twentieth Century. I classify these books as "literary" because the author imposes a personal choice of perspective, form and style on his material. In accomplishing this, Blainey delivers "the pleasure, wonder and surprise we associate with art"--to borrow a phrase from the New York Times film critic A.O. Scott.
Specifying Blainey's age at the time of composition is not intended as an expression of wonder that somebody so old could totter to his ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, A shortish homage to Geoffrey Blainey.(A Shorter History of...