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Chargement... Melbournepar Sophie Cunningham
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  sophie.anna | May 3, 2017 | 
 MELBOURNE is a city that munches lovingly upon itself. We Melburnians love to notice our habitat, comment on it, gloat over it, complain about and caress it. We nestle in its nooks, stride its streets. Melbourne is more than a city: it's a consciousness. It's a city of some inscrutability to outsiders and we are its jealous owners. So Sophie Cunningham's lyrical contribution to a series devoted to Australia's cities is justly written not as a guide for others but as a paean of familiar pride for Melbourne's own citizens: a testament to a place well loved by us who've long lived here and a genial induction to newcomers. Or perhaps a beautifully packaged, compact representative of our lives to send abroad: go on, try to resist our temptations, admire our prize.... Appartient à la sérieCities (4)
Sophie Cunningham writes a year in the city's life, a year that takes us from the heatwave that culminated on Black Saturday when temperatures soared to 47 degrees to the destructive deluge of a hailstorm. She walks through Melbourne's oldest suburb to its largest market, she goes to the footy and to the comedy festival, she talks publishing and learns how to use a letterpress. Along the way she journeys deep into her own recollections of the city she grew up in, and tells stories from its history: the theft of Picasso's Weeping Woman, the Hoddle Street massacre, William Barak's trek from Heal Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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She has captured the feel of Melbourne in this lovely little book which is part of a series, the other books are Brisbane by Mathew Condon and Sydney by Delia Falconer. The book is a lovely to hold and read.
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