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Adelaide / Kerryn Goldsworthy.

By: Series: Cities seriesPublisher: Sydney : NewSouth Publishing, 2011Description: 278 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781742232621
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 994.231 23
Awards:
  • Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, 2012 and National Year of Reading 2012 Our Story Collection, South Australia, 2012.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks 994.231 GOL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library and ILL 90682

Map on endpapers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-276)

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.

Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, 2012 and National Year of Reading 2012 Our Story Collection, South Australia, 2012.

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