With admirable enterprise, Bloomsbury books have asked a number of top writers to describe the city they love most, 30 Days in Sydney represents Peter Carey s turn with a unique take on the Aussie metropolis. Subtitled a wildly distorted account it is pretty much that: an oblique, poignant,...
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With admirable enterprise, Bloomsbury books have asked a number of top writers to describe the city they love most, 30 Days in Sydney represents Peter Carey s turn with a unique take on the Aussie metropolis. 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
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