Abbey's Bookshop Logo
Go to my checkout basket
Login to Abbey's Bookshop
Register with Abbey's Bookshop
Gift Vouchers
Browse by Category

Delivery charges 3 go FREE
Print this page

Sydney

Delia Falconer

9781921410925

New South Books


Literary studies: general; History; Geography

Hardback

304 pages

$29.95

In stock
ready to ship
order qty:  
Add this item to my basket

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. In this book, the third in a series in which leading Australian authors write about their hometowns, 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. Here, in her first non-fiction book, she proves herself an adept memoirist. 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.

au.com.bandaconsulting.shop.book.beans.Description@b8ef1c93

By:   Delia Falconer
Imprint:   New South Books
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 178mm,  Width: 110mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   299g
ISBN:  

9781921410925


ISBN 10:   1921410922
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   October 2010
Audience:   General ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock at Abbey's Bookshop
This is in stock in our store and available now.

Your cart does not contain any items.