Sydney |
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| Author:
| Falconer, Delia |
| Read by:
| Nolan, Jane |
| ISBN: | 978-1-74212-752-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
| Publisher: | Louis Braille Audio
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| Book Format: | CD-Audio |
| List Price: | AUD $78.75 |
Book Description:
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Sydney is the first non-fiction book by author of best-selling novel The Service of Clouds and editor of Best Australian Stories 2010, Delia Falconer. The writer's own deep family knowledge and memories of the city are interwoven with stories of people (from literary to eccentric to underworld) and events that have shaped the city. Falconer describes her childhood of the 1960s and 70s (she lived in McMahon's Point and Arkie Whitely was a playmate) as Sydney's romantic period, "squeezed...
More DescriptionSydney is the first non-fiction book by author of best-selling novel The Service of Clouds and editor of Best Australian Stories 2010, Delia Falconer. The writer's own deep family knowledge and memories of the city are interwoven with stories of people (from literary to eccentric to underworld) and events that have shaped the city. Falconer describes her childhood of the 1960s and 70s (she lived in McMahon's Point and Arkie Whitely was a playmate) as Sydney's romantic period, "squeezed between its faded golden era and destruction." In Falconer's Sydney, the past is ever alive in the present. Turning points in the city's collective psyche are also located. When Geoffrey Edelston opened his glitzy City Medical Centre on Broadway in 1985 he "had picked up on an enormous cultural shift: we were no longer afraid of showing off."