Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Jane Rawson moved to ‘unspoiled’ Tasmania to outrun climate change, but the fearful questions followed

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par David Carlin, Professor of Creative Writing, RMIT University

This is a ridiculous book. That’s not my opinion or choice of words. It is how Jane Rawson, the author, describes Human/Nature within its own pages. It’s a throwaway comment, perhaps one an editor would have questioned – the type of loose thread that could easily have been snipped with nobody the wiser.

The danger of self-deprecation is that it can be thrown back in your face. I don’t mean to do that, so much as to ask: what is it about this heartfelt book that moves its author to dismiss it, even in passing, as ridiculous?…

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