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A01=Louis Nowra
AD=20200601
Australian
Australian history
Author_Louis Nowra
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=JBCC
Category=NL-HB
Category=WTL
COP=Australia
Eastern Suburbs
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Format=BC
HMM=234
IMPN=NewSouth Publishing
ISBN13=9781742233260
Kings Cross
Kings Cross (N.S.W.) - History
Kings Cross (N.S.W.) - Social life and customs - Anecdotes
Language_English
nightlife
non-fiction
nostalgia
NSW
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20131001
POP=Sydney
Price=€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=NewSouth Publishing
red light district
sex workers
SMM=41
sub-culture
Subject=History
Sydney
Sydney (N.S.W.) - Social life and customs
Sydney history
Sydney non-fiction
Sydney suburbs
Sydney underground
WG=771
WMM=153
Product details
- ISBN 9781742233260
- Weight: 630g
- Dimensions: 149 x 231 x 41mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2013
- Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Sydney, AU
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Celebrated playwright, author and screenwriter Louis Nowra loves King Cross. A long-time resident, he makes us reimagine the most infamous and misunderstood place in Australia, a magnet for bohemianism, cosmopolitanism and organised crime.
In a wildly energetic book that walks the streets, sits in bars, chats with the locals, and spends time in clubs and apartments where you wish the walls could talk, Nowra traverses the history and the future of his beloved neighbourhood. He burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly ‘sex and sin’ narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters – some household names, others little-known – that not even a writer could conjure up.
Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place where backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, mad men, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, sailors, musicians, drug traffickers, eccentrics, judges and artists live side by side. Part flâneur, part historian and part eyewitness, Louis Nowra is the best possible guide to a place that is both real and a state of mind.
In a wildly energetic book that walks the streets, sits in bars, chats with the locals, and spends time in clubs and apartments where you wish the walls could talk, Nowra traverses the history and the future of his beloved neighbourhood. He burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly ‘sex and sin’ narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters – some household names, others little-known – that not even a writer could conjure up.
Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place where backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, mad men, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, sailors, musicians, drug traffickers, eccentrics, judges and artists live side by side. Part flâneur, part historian and part eyewitness, Louis Nowra is the best possible guide to a place that is both real and 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.
