Sydney may look golden, but this is the sunniness of Mozart, whose bright notes, especially at their most joyous, seem to cast themselves out across a great abyss. Sydney has always been the sexiest and most gaudy of our cities. Here, novelist Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity, and jacarandas. But she goes beyond these to find a far more complex city: beautiful, violent, half-wild, and at times deeply spiritual. It is a slightly unreal place, haunted by a past that it has never quite grasped, or come to terms with. In her first non-fiction book, Falconer proves herself an adept memoirist, as she twines the stories of the people that have made Sydney the twenty-first century city it is today. Mad clergymen, amateur astronomers, Indigenous weather experts, crims and victims, photographers and artists: their stories are surprising, funny, and moving.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Unsw Press
ISBN-13
9781921410925
eBay Product ID (ePID)
93898790
Product Key Features
Author
Delia Falconer
Publication Name
Sydney
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Geography & Geosciences
Publication Year
2010
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
178mm
Item Width
110mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Delia Falconer
Series Title
City Series
Topic
Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
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