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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account ...Show more
30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
Category: Travel | Series: The Writer and the City
After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. Here, he draws the reader into a journey of discovery and re-discovery. It offers you a private glimpse of Sydney and what lies behind the glitter ...Show more
Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more
Florence, A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
Category: Travel | Series: The Writer and the City
Novelist David Leavitt joins Edmund White and Peter Carey in the acclaimed The Writer and the City series with a scintillating view of Italy's most adored city. Florence is the only European city I can think of whose most famous citizens, at least in the last 150 years or so, have all been foreigners ...Show more
Ghost Town by Patrick McGrath
Category: Fiction | Series: Writer and the City Series
Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history.
Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City by John Banville
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art," who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradeany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolu ...Show more
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
Category: Travel | Series: Writer and the City
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Paris ...Show more
This Secret Garden : Oxford Revisited (The 'Writer and the City' series) by Justin Cartwright
Category: Travel | Series: The\Writer and the City Ser.
Part of a series called 'The Writer and the City'. Cartwright has returned to his old university, spoken to many leading figures, looked at his favourite places, subjected himself to am English tutorial, attended the freshers' dinner in his old college, studied various works of art, libraries and museum ...Show more
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