Adelaide / Kerry Goldworthy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldworthy, Kerry.

Series:

Cities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction.

Australian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : New South Publishing, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert tickets, tourist maps ... Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of iconic objects. Adelaide navigates her southern home, discovering its identifying curios and passing them to the reader to touch, inspect and marvel at. These objects explore the beautiful, commonplace, dark and contradictory history of Adelaide: the heat, the wine, the weirdness, the progressive politics and the rigid colonial forma

Contents:

Contents; 1. Introduction: Contradictions; 2. The Map; 3. The Painting; 4. The Statue; 5. The Rotunda; 6. The Bucket of Peaches; 7. The Photograph; 8. The Pink Shorts; 9. The Frog Cake; 10. The Concert Ticket; Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-74224-567-6

OCLC:

769342348