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ChameleonCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781923058279 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2025 Publisher: The Text Publishing Company Description: Robert Dessaix's testament to a wonderful life is funny, incisive and literary. His voice is completely distinctive and utterly compelling. 'A dazzlingly beautiful reading experience.' Guardian 'Sweet Jesus, this is beautiful.' David Marr Robert Dessaix's Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories
Condition: BRAND NEWISBN: 9781923058279
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Description:
Robert Dessaix's testament to a wonderful life is funny, incisive and literary. His voice is completely distinctive and utterly compelling.
'A dazzlingly beautiful reading experience.' Guardian
'Sweet Jesus, this is beautiful.' David Marr
Robert Dessaix's Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story to story, Dessaix describes an identity in flux- his beginnings as an adopted child named Thomas Robert Jones, his youthful interest in religious thinking, his obsession with all things Russian, his marriage to Lisa and divorce, his discovery of travel. In North Africa he finds different ways of feeling and being, and in Australia he begins his abiding relationship with his partner Peter Timms. At every point he muses on pleasure, art, sex, literature, infatuation, happiness, music, life, death and all the rest. Chameleon is a virtuoso performance of self-revelation, as Dessaix explores how the restless mind takes constant detours to search for what makes life good, a place of wisdom and love.
PRAISE FOR CHAMELEON-
'Wise, witty, and sumptuously idiosyncratic, Robert Dessaix is a writer for all seasons.' Andrea Goldsmith
In this flinty yet fond conversation with his long-ago self, Robert Dessaix explores the myriad contradictions that make us fully human. His words, and his singular wisdom, shimmer.' Ailsa Piper
'Carefully crafted and moving.' The Booklist, Age
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★★★★★ 1
very poor quality
Size: 14, Color: Black
they are a peice of garbage, within about a month since i started wearing them the outer material started pealing off within two months the upper separated from the soles so i had to go to a shoemaker to sew them back together, within some few months the insoles completely wore out rendering the shoes unwearable, now mind you that i do not abuse shoes but use them in a normal office oriented enviorment, i will for sure not be buying these shoes again
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Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2026
★★★★★ 4
Fit over a rather large bunion!
Size: 13 Wide, Color: Mocha Grainy Leather
Very comfortable…didn’t pinch toe bed.
Attractive!
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Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Great shoes
Size: 12, Color: Black
These are great. We buy them again and again
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Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Sleek and classy loafer
Size: 10.5, Color: Black
Was skeptical on this purchase but I have to say, well worth it. Not super expensive but very comfortable. Wears well for summer dress attire for taking your lady out for a dinner or show. Casual yet classy.
Not a bad buy.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2026
★★★★★ 5
Great price great shoe
Size: 12, Color: Burgundy Polished Full Grain
Excellent shoe. Tried the Sebago penny loafer and the sizing was ridiculous. These J and M are sized perfectly. I’ve had them before and they wear like iron. Very comfortable right out of the box.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2026