Stories of Sydney

by Alice Grundy (Editor), Michael Mohammed Ahmed (Editor), David M. Henley (Editor)

Genres: Short Stories, Fiction

249 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2014

About the author

Alice Grundy has been a book editor for the past fifteen years and is completing a PhD at ANU. Her thesis forms the basis for a minigraph, Editing Fiction: Three Cases Studies from Postwar Australia, published by Cambridge University Press. She has taught literature at ANU and editing at UTS, and written for the Sydney Review of Books, The Conversation and The Canberra Times, among others.

Reviews

[Talia freeman · Rating 5 out of 5]

dare I say this one of the best most moving creative non fiction books I’ve ever read. paints a brilliant portrait of Sydney with blemishes and all, and sheds a light on the more marginalised, but no less brilliant and powerful stories of humanity in Australia today.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first Sydney anthology I've read that had a feeling of 'my Sydney'.

[Noah Melser · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some of the stories: carpark in Campsie Woolies, train trip to Katoomba, a party in Concord, the history of a pub in Surry Hills. Other books and tv set in sydney tend to have clean suburban leafy places and white wealthy married people dealing with issues.These stories pull together nice parts of Sydney and animate the place in a way that most representations don't. Short stories focus on compelling people and stories highlighting how satisfying representations of familiar places can be when details matter.

[Sven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Earthy, vivid stories of life in Sydney's less privileged world.

[Rania T · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting, quirky, diverse anthology that captures the essence of Sydney in all its guises.