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David Malouf

David Malouf is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. He is the author of poems, fiction, libretti and essays. In 1996, his novel Remembering Babylon was awarded the first International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His 1998 Boyer Lectures were published as A Spirit of Play: The Making of Australian Consciousness. In 2000 he was selected as the sixteenth Neustadt Laureate. His most recent novel is Ransom.

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The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World

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Title:: The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World
Series:: Quarterly Essay #41
Written by:: David Malouf
Read by:: Tom Peters
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 2
Duration:: 2 hours 14 minutes
Published:: March 01 2011
Available Date:: March 28 2011
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781742677668
Genres:: Non-fiction; Politics & Current Affairs
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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An essay to savour and reflect upon by one of Australia’s greatest novelists.

In the first Quarterly Essay for 2011, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what is it to live a good life? With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about the self, morality and happiness. In an age of environmental peril, and in the wake of the global financial crisis, such questions have returned with new force - we live in unpredictable times and Homo economicus has been found wanting. In considering the good life, David Malouf returns to the classics, looks to Australian traditions and examines the idea of the global citizen.