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'In On Beauty Susan Johnson explores the role of beauty in our lives, and in her life in particular: "Sometimes I think my whole life has been one long search for beauty. I am Australian and as such I should be embarrassed to write a line like that, in a land where one must speak of beauty in whispers." She writes of where her search has taken her, how "beauty enters the body like desire", and how beauty is nothing less than "life's call to order, life's bid to save it from itself".' (Publisher's blurb)
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More Than a Simple Beauty Contest
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 June 2009; (p. 25, 27)
— Review of On Beauty 2009 single work essay -
Objects of Desire and Derision
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 June 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of On Beauty 2009 single work essay -
On with the Show : Deep Joys Await
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 June 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of On Resilience 2009 single work essay ; On Humbug 2009 single work essay ; On Privilege 2009 single work essay ; On Beauty 2009 single work essay ; On Doubt 2009 single work essay
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On with the Show : Deep Joys Await
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 13 June 2009; (p. 16)
— Review of On Resilience 2009 single work essay ; On Humbug 2009 single work essay ; On Privilege 2009 single work essay ; On Beauty 2009 single work essay ; On Doubt 2009 single work essay -
Objects of Desire and Derision
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27-28 June 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of On Beauty 2009 single work essay -
More Than a Simple Beauty Contest
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 27 June 2009; (p. 25, 27)
— Review of On Beauty 2009 single work essay
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