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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Pink Book
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'The Pink Book is a memoir about sexuality, gender, and grief and loss through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and about the influence of life’s juxtaposing forces: beauty and suffering, freedom and constraint.

'The Pink Book contains Henry von Doussa’s art, writing, and precious objects (including old family letters and photographs) to tell a story of growing up through the 80s and 90s, asking: What gives a family lift? What drags a family down? The Pink Book explores the power of creativity to understand and ease the mental ill-health that hangs as an ever-present spectre over multiple generations of an Australian family.

'The Pink Book is an exceptionally crafted, beautifully presented publication designed by award-winning book designer Sean Hogan.' (Production summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Clouds of Magellan , 2022 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1vp.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date : March 2022
      ISBN: 9780987403780

Works about this Work

The Messiness of Desire and Freedom : Leila Lois Reviews ‘The Pink Book’ by Henry Von Doussa Leila Lois , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;

— Review of The Pink Book Henry von Doussa , 2022 selected work autobiography art work

'Simplicity and dedication are two apt words to sum up The Pink Book, a collection of images and memoirs from Henry Von Doussa. The book is a series of personal essays and collages bound in an exquisite coffee-table book; it bursts with colour and nuance yet simplicity and dedication to the characters and stories that lie within. Interwoven with touchingly personal stories of childhood and young adulthood and philosophies on life, it is a challenge to put The Pink Book down …I devoured the lion’s share of the book in my garden, smiling and gasping as I greedily turned the pages.' (Introduction)

The Messiness of Desire and Freedom : Leila Lois Reviews ‘The Pink Book’ by Henry Von Doussa Leila Lois , 2021 single work review
— Appears in: Rochford Street Review , no. 33 2021;

— Review of The Pink Book Henry von Doussa , 2022 selected work autobiography art work

'Simplicity and dedication are two apt words to sum up The Pink Book, a collection of images and memoirs from Henry Von Doussa. The book is a series of personal essays and collages bound in an exquisite coffee-table book; it bursts with colour and nuance yet simplicity and dedication to the characters and stories that lie within. Interwoven with touchingly personal stories of childhood and young adulthood and philosophies on life, it is a challenge to put The Pink Book down …I devoured the lion’s share of the book in my garden, smiling and gasping as I greedily turned the pages.' (Introduction)

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