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Nov 6, 2023 · The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a...
Oct 31, 2023 · Question 7 is a meandering mind map of Flanagan’s and reflections on his parents, his ancestors and Tasmania. The book opens with Flanagan visiting Japan in 2012.
Question 7 is a 1961 American-West German film directed by Stuart Rosenberg and starring Michael Gwynn, Margaret Jahnen and Christian de Bresson. It won the National Board of Review Award for Best Film.
May 29, 2024 · When Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan was 21, he almost drowned. Trapped in his kayak he had to hold his body taut to prevent the raging waters of the Franklin River filling his mouth. That’s what reading his memoir, Question 7, is like: stories, ideas, snatches of memory cascade; language rains down in torrents, leaving you dizzy ...
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“Question 7 is a profoundly moving love song for the writer’s parents, a forensic excavation, a lament, a confession, a jigsaw puzzle in which Hiroshima connects to H.G. Wells and the Martians colonise Tasmania.
Mar 3, 2024 · Question 7, then, explores some of the toughest imponderables of our existence. It reminds us that once something happens, it doesn’t go away, but is part of the past, present and future, is part of the fabric of our being.
Jun 12, 2024 · “Question 7” is a book of pithy, profound observations as well as engaging meanderings. Mr Flanagan is not afraid of the big questions, namely: What is time? What is love? What is memory?
May 15, 2024 · Richard Flanagan’s Question 7, a moving blend of memoir, history and fiction, takes us from Japanese ruins to a Tasmanian shack. On August 6 1945, the Enola Gay dropped “Little Boy” on ...
Oct 31, 2023 · Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 is a profoundly moving love song for the writer’s parents, a forensic excavation, a lament, a confession, a jig-saw puzzle in which Hiroshima connects to HG Wells, and the Martians colonise Tasmania.
May 30, 2024 · ‘Question 7 by Richard Flanagan is a memoir about his parents, interwoven with meditations on Tasmania, genocide, colonialism, the atomic bomb, H.G. Wells and Rebecca West… it is fiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down.
