Alice Springs by Eleanor Hogan
Alice Springs, Alice, The Alice, Mparntwe is the most talked about but least familiar place in Australia. It is a town of extremes and contradictions: searingly hot and bitterly cold, thousands of miles from anywhere, the heart of black Australia and the headquarters of the controversial NT Intervention. It's seen as a place where blokes are blokes, yet the town has a high lesbian population. It is the gateway to the red centre, but relatively few Australians have been there. Its striking landscape and modern facilities attract those looking for a desert change, yet it is a town where frontier conflicts still hold sway. Eleanor Hogan's Alice Springs reveals the texture of everyday life in this town through the passage of the local seasons.
Eleanor Hogan is a literary non-fiction writer with a professional background in Indigenous policy research. Her writing, including her previous book, Alice Springs, published by NewSouth in 2012, draws strongly on her experience in central Australia, where she has lived and worked since 2000. She was winner of the Peter Blazey Fellowship 2017 and the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship 2019 for biographical writing.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781742233253 |
| ISBN 10 | 1742233252 |
| Title | Alice Springs |
| Author | Eleanor Hogan |
| Series | Cities Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | NewSouth Publishing |
| Year published | 2012-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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