30 Days in Sydney (Writer and the City)  -  Peter Carey

KORTE INHOUD

Forget the limpid, dreamlike views we saw on the television during the Olympics, the paradise of hedonism represented by Bondi Beach and the rest; Sydney is a savage city, as violent in its setting and its weather as it is in its history. This is a brief and heartfelt account of an expatriate writer revisiting his past, examining as he does so the paradox of a blessed country with a bloody, accursed past. Above all, this book is about Australian mateship, and it is the biographies, jokes and stories of Pete...
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2001 Uitgever: Bloomsbury Publishing 140 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0747555001 ISBN-13: 9780747555001