Today’s corporations, government departments, news media, and - perhaps most dangerously - politicians speak to each other and to us in clichéd, impenetrable, lifeless sludge. Don Watson can bear it no longer. In Death Sentence, part diatribe, part cool reflection on the state of Australia’s public language, he takes a blowtorch to the words 'and their users' who kill joy, imagination and clarity. Scathing, funny and brilliant, Death Sentence is a small book of profound weight and timeliness.
