{"product_id":"2026600000428-secondhand-30-days-in-sydney-a-wildly-distorted-account-signed","title":"30 Days In Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed., 1st impr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48763134673115,"sku":"2026600000428-SECONDHAND","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/bad86457-79e5-40ff-a590-8182963efa77.png?v=1778499085","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026600000428-secondhand-30-days-in-sydney-a-wildly-distorted-account-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}