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Thirty Days in Sydney

Thirty Days in Sydney

Author(s): Peter Carey

Location(s): Sydney

Genre(s): Travelogue

Era(s): Modern

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Subtitled “a wildly distorted account” it is pretty much that: an oblique, poignant, entertaining and rather candid look at the city. Using his prize-winning novelist’s eye for telling detail, and the objectivity of the relative outsider (Carey has spent the last decade in New York, and he hails from Melbourne), the author shows that Sydney is not just about sun, sports, gay sex and Sydney Harbour Bridge. It’s also about endangered wildlife, painful history, militant agnosticism and, above all, a wilful, dogged, brave, funny, cantankerous citizenry. As Carey trots around town we get to meet a few of these hard-bitten “diggers”: their individuality and orneriness are deftly sketched.

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‘This is a hymn of praise to Sydney and to its people. A little book, but an incredibly rich one’ Scotland on Sunday

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