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Robert Dessaix

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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    Night Letters (January 1999)
  • Last Book:
    On Humbug (March 2020)
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Books in Order: 6 titles

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  • On Humbug

  • What Days Are For

  • Arabesques

    One Sunday afternoon in a secluded valley in Normandy, Robert Dessaix chanced upon the castle where the famous French writer Andre Gide spent his childhood. Recalling the excitement Robert felt when he first read Gide as a teenager, he set off to ...

  • Twilight of Love

    Together with Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, Ivan Turgenev was one of the leading novelists of Russia's Golden Age and the first Russian writer to capture a Western audience. No less sensational than his novels was his personal life. For forty years, until...

  • Corfu

    One Easter a young actor, far from home, rents a house from a writer he's never heard of called Kester Berwick, and becomes fascinated by the absent Berwick's rootless, self-invented existence. Gradually, he finds his own life strangely echoing the a...

  • Night Letters

    For twenty nights in a hotel room in Venice, a traveler, recently diagnosed with an incurable illness, writes a letter home to a friend. He describes the kaleidoscopic journey he has just made across northern Italy from Switzerland, while reflecting ...



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Robert Dessaix has published 6 books.

Robert Dessaix does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, On Humbug, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Robert Dessaix, Night Letters, was published in January 1999.

No. Robert Dessaix does not write books in series.
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