Sydney - a biography

Nowra, Louis
Sydney - a biography

Sydney - a biography

Nowra, Louis

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Yes, Sydney can be vulgar, corrupt, facile, ugly, brash and mindlessly hedonistic, but it is also visually beautiful, sensual, playful, dynamic, with a sense of unrestrained optimism. I fell in love with it as only someone who wasn't born there could.

In Sydney, acclaimed playwright and writer Louis Nowra - author of Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo - expands his gaze to explore the dynamism and pulsating sense of self-importance of his adopted city. This big, bustling portrait of Sydney is told through profiles of people high and low - a cast of criminals and premiers, ordinary folk, entertainers, artists, writers, thieves and visionaries.

Along with its people, Nowra surveys the city's landscape, its architecture and its global identity. And as Sydney's history unfolds throughout the twentieth century and beyond, Nowra revels in its neon lights, music, skyscrapers, sense of optimism and the many disparate elements that shape Sydneysiders' view of themselves.

'Nowra captures the everchanging spirit of what is arguably - to most, and inarguably to Nowra - Australia's pre-eminent city.' - BOOKS+PUBLISHING

Author:   Nowra, Louis
Publisher:   NewSouth Publishing
ISBN:  

9781742235929


Pages:   512
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
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Yes, Sydney can be vulgar, corrupt, facile, ugly, brash and mindlessly hedonistic, but it is also visually beautiful, sensual, playful, dynamic, with a sense of unrestrained optimism. I fell in love with it as only someone who wasn't born there could.

In Sydney, acclaimed playwright and writer Louis Nowra - author of Kings Cross and Woolloomooloo - expands his gaze to explore the dynamism and pulsating sense of self-importance of his adopted city. This big, bustling portrait of Sydney is told through profiles of people high and low - a cast of criminals and premiers, ordinary folk, entertainers, artists, writers, thieves and visionaries.

Along with its people, Nowra surveys the city's landscape, its architecture and its global identity. And as Sydney's history unfolds throughout the twentieth century and beyond, Nowra revels in its neon lights, music, skyscrapers, sense of optimism and the many disparate elements that shape Sydneysiders' view of themselves.

'Nowra captures the everchanging spirit of what is arguably - to most, and inarguably to Nowra - Australia's pre-eminent city.' - BOOKS+PUBLISHING

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Author:   Nowra, Louis
Publisher:   NewSouth Publishing
ISBN:  

9781742235929


Pages:   512
Publication Date:   01 December 2022
Bind Format:   Paperback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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