Henry von Doussa Book Launch
Date and time
The Pink Book by Henry von Doussa - Adelaide Launch in The Drawing Room, Scotch College
About this event
Please join Henry von Doussa and the publishers from Clouds of Magellan Press to launch The Pink Book .
Date: Thursday, 16 June. Time: 6pm for a 6.30 start. Finish 7.30.
Guest Speaker: Professor Damien W. Riggs, Flinders University.
The Pink Book is a memoir about family, sexuality, class, and fear and grief through the HIV/AIDS epidemic, highlighting life’s juxtaposing forces: beauty and suffering, freedom and constraint.
‘This is a book with stories of youthful suffering. But it shows how the struggle for creativity and originality can contribute to healing.’ The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG
This beautifully crafted 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.
