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Sydney by Delia Falconer
£18.95
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Product Ref. (e.g. ISBN, SKU)
9781742237084
Published:
28 Feb 2021
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
320 pages
Dimensions:
177x110x20mm
Weight:
0.333kgs
Author:
Sydney has always been the sexiest and brashest of Australia's cities, but perhaps the most misunderstood. In this new edition of Sydney - part of the classic City Series - Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity and jacarandas, its fireworks, glitz and magic. But she discards lazy stereotypes to reveal a complex city.
As I set out from the city's southern end, the sandstone walls beneath the Central railway line still held the day's heat ... I passed a row of old terraces where feral banana trees had colonised the tiny courtyards behind them, and walked on, past the smell of Thai food, up dirty William Street ... The moon rose from the invisible harbour into a sky of such deep royal blue it was almost hard to believe in. The street smelled of low tied. For all its beauty, the city could return in an instant to pulp. And that thought was strangely cheering. Sydney has always been the sexiest and brashest of our cities, but perhaps the most misunderstood. In this new edition of Sydney - part of the classic City Series - Delia Falconer conjures up its sandstone, humidity and jacarandas, its fireworks, glitz and magic. But she discards lazy stereotypes to reveal a complex city: beautiful, violent, half-wild, and at times deeply spiritual. Beginning with her childhood in a decaying '70s Sydney, caught between a faded Art Deco age and mega development, Falconer intertwines her own stories with the wellsprings of the city's history and its literary past. Melancholic, moving and funny — Sydney is about its people: mad clergymen, amateur astronomers, Indigenous weather experts, crims and victims, photographers and artists, thinkers and dreamers. Falconer's Sydney is intensely atmospheric and seductive. Now with a new Afterword in which Falconer ponders the city's twentyfirst century transformations - might it have become a softer, nicer place? Will it be able to withstand the real presence of climate change? - and her own. Ranges over the history and different moods of Australia's oldest citySydney was first published in 2010 as part of the classic NewSouth City SeriesEvocative and atmospheric writing, acclaimed as a dazzling literary achievementCombines memoir, history and journalismMajor title in bestselling City Series where leading writers of fiction and non-fiction reflect on their home city now available once moreBilled as 'travel books where no-one leaves home'Delia Falconer is a bestselling novelist, prize-winning essayist and criticNew edition of an acclaimed classic with a new AfterwordIn new Afterword author reflects on the changes to her own life now that she has children, and the changes to the city, daring to ask if Sydney might be losing its hard edgesGrapples with the reality of climate change, from a long season of drought to a city choking in bushfire smokeMajor advertising and publicity campaigns to support re-release of all the books in the City Series.
About the Author: Delia Falconer is the author of three books: two novels and one work of creative non-fiction. Her first novel, the bestselling The Service of Clouds, was shortlisted for major literary awards including the Miles Franklin, NSW Premier's Literary Awards, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and the Australian Booksellers' Book of the Year. Her second, The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, was shortlisted among other awards for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Asia Pacific Division).
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