REVIEW: ‘Lives’ (Peter Robb, Black Inc.)

Tuesday, 28 February 2012 Books+Publishing

Lives is a collection of 40-odd loosely biographical pieces—some new, some previously published—from Australian author Peter Robb (Midnight in Sicily, M, Streetfight in Naples), which contains some wonderful writing but feels a little underdone as an anthology. The collection is divided into three parts—Australia, Italy and Elsewhere—and the subjects are...