Chameleon cover art

Chameleon

A memoir of art, travels, ideas and love

Preview

Listen with Audible free trial

Free with 30-day trial
Prime logo New to Audible Prime Member exclusive:
2 credits with free trial
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks
Download titles to your library and listen offline
₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Chameleon

Written by: Robert Dessaix
Narrated by: Robert Dessaix
Free with 30-day trial

₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for ₹446.00

Buy Now for ₹446.00

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.

‘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

’Sweet Jesus, this is beautiful.’ DAVID MARR©2025 Robert Dessaix (P)2025 W. F. Howes ltd.
Art & Literature Authors
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet