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See moreA powerful meditation on beauty and body image from the author of Eggshell Skull.
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You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal.
In recent decades, women have made momentous progress fighting the patriarchy, yet they are held to ever-stricter, more punishing physical standards. Self-worth still plummets, and eating disorders are more deadly for how easily they are dismissed.
In Beauty, Bri Lee explores our obsession with thinness and asks how an intrinsically unattainable standard of physical 'perfection' has become so crucial to so many. What happens if you try to reach that impossible goal?
Bri did try, and Beauty is what she learned from that battle: a gripping and intelligent rejection of an ideal that diminishes us all.
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ISBN: 9781760876524
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 November 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 178.0mm
Weight: 140g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Bri Lee is the multi-award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, Beauty, and Who Gets to Be Smart. The Work is Bri's debut novel. Her journalism, essays, and short stories have been published widely, and she is the creator and editor of News & Reviews.
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The Work
This novel isn't just good; it's superb. Assured, and powerful, and intelligent, and very, VERY hard to put down. I consumed it in a passion. - Annabel Crabb Smart, witty and super steamy, The Work oozes intelligence and pulses with energy. I devoured it! - Emily Maguire A completely exhilarating, powerful, mesmerising novel, filled with ALL my favourite things: sex,...Paperback$3400Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Eggshell Skull
Winner, Biography Book of the Year, ABIA Awards Winner, People's Choice Award, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Winner, People's Choice Prize - Nib Literary Award Winner, Best Debut, Davitt Awards Winner, Best True Crime, Ned Kelly Awards 'Scorching, self-scouring: a young woman finds her steel and learns to wield it' - Helen Garner 'Brutal, brave and utterly compelling . . ....Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Seed
An astonishing new novel from the acclaimed and bestselling author of Eggshell Skull and The Work. Mitchell is a brilliant biologist, committed to the environment and the growing global antinatalist movement. For one month each year, he lives with his colleague Frances in a utopia of radical equality and scientific dedication in Antarctica. They are concluding the Anarctos Project: a...Paperback$3100Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
Who Gets to Be Smart
'Debate done with absolute verve, with eloquence and generosity' — CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS, author of Damascus 'Fascinating, eye-opening . . . a sharp wake-up call' — FLEX MAMI / LILLIAN AHENKAN, author of The Success Experiment 'Thoughtful, surprising and exquisitely written. Bri Lee once again challenges us to confront the structures that shape, and restrict, our understanding of the world.' —...Paperback$3500Elsewhere:$3799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow -
The Work
'This novel isn't just good; it's superb. Assured, and powerful, and intelligent, and very, VERY hard to put down. I consumed it in a passion.' - Annabel Crabb 'Smart, witty and super steamy, The Work oozes intelligence and pulses with energy. I devoured it!' - Emily Maguire 'A completely exhilarating, powerful, mesmerising novel, filled with ALL my favourite things: sex,...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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