Melbourne
$37.23
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2020
Summary
Melbourne’s a city you get to know from the inside out you have to walk it to love it. My favourite time to do this is at night. That’s when you capture glimpses of people eating, laughing, talking, arguing, watching TV and reading through half-open terrace house doors and windows … It is a city of inside places and conversation. Of intimacy.
Melbourne begins on Black Saturday, the day that bushfires tore through the outskirts of Melbourne, destroying the townships of Marysville and K…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781742237107 |
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| ISBN-10: | 174223710X |
| Author: | Sophie Cunningham |
| Publisher: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Imprint: | NewSouth Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 333g |
| Dimensions: | 177mm x 110mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Cities Series |
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Critics Review
‘This beautiful book provokes nostalgia and deeper thinking about the events, places and people who have defined Melbourne.’ – Herald Sun
‘An admirable response to the impossible task of writing about a city its history, its present, its characters, its stories, its politics and its personal meaning in a single, accessible volume when any one of these themes should take several. Cunningham is communicating this city’s soul as though it’s a person, full of contradictions but with an essential character.’ –Waleed Aly, The Sunday Age
‘Cunningham has successfully captured the dynamics of a city in constant flux, while focusing on the essence of its inner life, which gives it an ambience quite unlike that found in any other Australian city.’ –Robert Hefner, The Canberra Times
‘Cunningham is communicating this city’s soul as though it’s a person, full of contradictions but with an essential character.’ –Waleed Aly, Australian Book Review
‘It would be nice to imagine that the gift of this book to Melbourne is its greater capacity to understand itself and its webs of connection.’ –David Sornig, Melbourne Review
‘This beautiful book provokes nostalgia and deeper thinking about the events, places and people who have defined Melbourne.’ –Herald Sun
About The Author
Sophie Cunningham
Sophie Cunningham is the author of six books, including City of Trees. A former publisher and editor, Cunningham was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019, Cunningham was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for her contribution to literature.
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