A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps... Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of iconic objects. Adelaide navigates her southern home, discovering its identifying curios and passing them to the reader to touch, inspect, and marvel at. These objects explore the beautiful, commonplace, dark, and contradictory history of Adelaide: the heat, the wine, the weirdness, the progressive politics and the rigid colonial formality, the sinister horrors, and the homey friendliness. They all paint a lively portrait of her home city - as remembered, lived in, thought about, missed, loved, hated, laughed at, travelled to and from, seen from afar and close up by assorted writers, citizens, and visitors; but mainly as it exists in her memory and imagination. Like the book? Join the conversation on Twitter. #adelaidebook
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Newsouth Publishing
ISBN-10
1742232620
ISBN-13
9781742232621
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109149795
Product Key Features
Book Title
Adelaide
Author
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Local History, People & Places: General, People
Publication Year
2011
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
178mm
Item Width
110mm
Item Weight
369g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Kerryn Goldsworthy
Series Title
City Series
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
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