30 Days In Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Part travel memoir and part love letter to one of the world's most iconic cities, this vivid work chronicles Booker Prize-winning novelist Peter Carey's return to Sydney over the course of a single month, weaving together personal history, myth, and urban legend into a richly layered portrait. With his characteristic wit and self-aware candor, Carey presents the city not as a postcard destination but as a living, contradictory character — sun-drenched and beautiful yet haunted by its colonial past and social tensions. The narrative unfolds through a series of encounters with old friends, eccentric locals, and the city's dramatic harbor landscape, each anecdote illuminating a different facet of Australian identity. Carey's prose is sharp and digressive, blending fact with deliberate distortion to argue that the truest portrait of a place is always, inevitably, a subjective one. 30 Days in Sydney stands as a genre-defying gem — part memoir, part fiction, part cultural criticism — that will resonate deeply with anyone who has ever tried to recapture a home that has moved on without them.
Author: Peter Carey
Format: Hardback
Published: 2001, Bloomsbury
Edition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Part travel memoir and part love letter to one of the world's most iconic cities, this vivid work chronicles Booker Prize-winning novelist Peter Carey's return to Sydney over the course of a single month, weaving together personal history, myth, and urban legend into a richly layered portrait. With his characteristic wit and self-aware candor, Carey presents the city not as a postcard destination but as a living, contradictory character — sun-drenched and beautiful yet haunted by its colonial past and social tensions. The narrative unfolds through a series of encounters with old friends, eccentric locals, and the city's dramatic harbor landscape, each anecdote illuminating a different facet of Australian identity. Carey's prose is sharp and digressive, blending fact with deliberate distortion to argue that the truest portrait of a place is always, inevitably, a subjective one. 30 Days in Sydney stands as a genre-defying gem — part memoir, part fiction, part cultural criticism — that will resonate deeply with anyone who has ever tried to recapture a home that has moved on without them.