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Australian Books

Into oblivion

6 April 2019

9:00 AM

6 April 2019

9:00 AM

Moribund for about nine years now, Clive James has released his newest transcription of the Grim Reaper’s call. You might be forgiven for thinking that his recent output resembles John Farnham’s Farwell Tour, and indeed much of The River in the Sky will be familiar to those who can’t stop reading work by the man who can’t stop writing about himself.

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