Kings Cross by Louis Nowra
A longtime resident of Kings Cross, celebrated Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter Louis Lowra, in an ode to the neighborhood, cajoles readers into reimagining the most infamous and misunderstood place in Australia, a magnet for bohemianism, cosmopolitanism, and organized crime. In a wildly energetic book that walks the streets, sits in bars, chats with locals, and spends time in clubs and apartments where the walls, if they could talk, would tell a story or two, Nowra traverses the history and the future of his beloved neighborhood. He burrows beneath the sensationalist narrative of an underbelly of sex and sin to reveal stories and a cast of characters too astonishing to be fictitious. Backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, judges, artists, and others live side-by-side in Kings Cross, and eyewitness, historian, and man-about-town Louis Nowra is the perfect guide to a no-holds-barred place that is as much physical as it is a state of mind.
Louis Nowra is an acclaimed author, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. His plays include The Golden Age, Radiance and Cosi (made into a successful film for which he wrote the screenplay). His novels include The Misery of Beauty (2006) and Ice (2009), which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. His most recent non-fiction title was the controversial Bad Dreaming (2007), about violence in Aboriginal communities in remote Australia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781742233260 |
| ISBN 10 | 1742233260 |
| Titel | Kings Cross |
| Autor | Louis Nowra |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | NewSouth Publishing |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2013-10-01 |
| Seitenanzahl | 640 |
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