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'The Grass Library is a philosophical and poetic journey that recounts the author’s relationship with his four sheep and other animals in his home in the Blue Mountains. It is both a memoir and an elegy for animal rights.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Other Formats
- Large print.
- Dyslexic edition.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Adele Dumont Reviews The Grass Library by David Brooks
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , March 2020;
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography -
The Grass Library by David Brooks
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography'From the Man’s horse ‘blood[ied] from hip to shoulder’ in Banjo Paterson’s ‘The Man from Snowy River’ (1890) to the kangaroos drunkenly slaughtered in Kenneth Cook’s Wake in Fright (1961), non-human animals have not fared well in Australian literature. Even when, as in Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals (2014), the author’s imagination is fully brought to bear on the inner lives of animals, their fate tends towards the Hobbesian – ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ – reflecting back to us our own often unexamined cruelty. The rare exceptions, such as J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003), incorporating a fictionalised series of animal-rights lectures, serve only to point up the rule.' (Introduction)
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Human Thinks about (thinking about) Nonhuman Species
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 33 no. 2 2019; (p. 440-441)
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography -
Some Personal Reflections
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 187-192)
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography
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Some Personal Reflections
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 79 no. 1 2019; (p. 187-192)
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography -
The Grass Library by David Brooks
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 420 2020;
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography'From the Man’s horse ‘blood[ied] from hip to shoulder’ in Banjo Paterson’s ‘The Man from Snowy River’ (1890) to the kangaroos drunkenly slaughtered in Kenneth Cook’s Wake in Fright (1961), non-human animals have not fared well in Australian literature. Even when, as in Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals (2014), the author’s imagination is fully brought to bear on the inner lives of animals, their fate tends towards the Hobbesian – ‘solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ – reflecting back to us our own often unexamined cruelty. The rare exceptions, such as J.M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello (2003), incorporating a fictionalised series of animal-rights lectures, serve only to point up the rule.' (Introduction)
-
Adele Dumont Reviews The Grass Library by David Brooks
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , March 2020;
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography -
Human Thinks about (thinking about) Nonhuman Species
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , vol. 33 no. 2 2019; (p. 440-441)
— Review of The Grass Library 2019 single work autobiography
