From the Bookshelf of Aussie Readers…
Find A Copy At
Group Discussions About This Book
No group discussions for this book yet.
What Members Thought
I don't know why I didn't connect more with this book. Perhaps I was expecting it to be something it wasn't. It wasn't full of humour and jokes about one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Nor did it evoke images of a place I live and people I know. Mr. Carey's Sydney is very different than mine - harsher, more extreme. It's full of different people - wilder, more quirky. I knew the places and events he writes about but never had that, "oh yes" kind of thing you normally expect when you'
...more
Carey takes us in this short novella through Sydney, looking at the past to his own memories of the place he loves. The cast of characters are engaging and it is just a wonderful capture of time and place.
I really enjoyed this book, the words, the rhythm, the descriptions and just being wrapped for a short time intimately into a big city.
I really enjoyed this book, the words, the rhythm, the descriptions and just being wrapped for a short time intimately into a big city.
I found this book quite interesting...still cannot understand, though, why Peter Carey, having been born in Melbourne and lived for a time in Sydney, has an Australian passport, but choses to live in New York...I have been to all 3 places and I know where I'd chose to live and it aint New York!
...more
Jul 14, 2013
Blue Eyed Vixen
marked it as to-read
Jul 03, 2016
Hilde
marked it as wishlist
Aug 19, 2017
Noiresque
marked it as to-read
