A Common Prayer by Michael Leunig
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A Common Prayer


Price: $16.95
On Sale: 6/08/1998
Formats:     Non Standard Hardback

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A cartoonist talks to God.

In 1989, cartoonist Michael Leunig began an experiment. Asked to produce a weekly cartoon for Sunday Age, Australia, he remembers wondering ′if newspapers might carry some small spiritual message of consolation as a tiny reparation for the enormous anxiety and distress they can create′ Since then, the two collection, A Common Prayer and The Prayer Tree have brought his unique humour and intriguing drawings to a wide public across the world.


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ISBN: 9781863717403; ISBN10: 1863717404; Imprint: ; On Sale: 6/08/1998; Format: Hardback; Trimsize: 174 x 152 x 9 mm; Pages: 0; $16.95;

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