30 days in Sydney
Subtitle: a wildly distorted account
By: Peter Carey.
Series: Writer and the city
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Carey, Peter, -- 1943-; Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Description and travel.
Other titles: Thirty days in Sydney
Description: "After living in New York for ten years novelist Peter Carey returned home to Sydney with the idea of capturing its ebullient character via the four elements. 'I would never seek to define Manhattan by asking my New York friends for stories of Earth and Air and Fire and Water, ' he writes, 'but that is exactly what was in my mind as I walked through immigration at Kingsford Smith International Airport.' But Carey's friends turn out to be anarchic characters each of whom has his own very individual way of story-telling."--Jacket.