Kings Cross : a biography
Nowra, Louis, 1950-2013
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Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place, where backpackers, prostitutes, chefs, mad men, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, sailors, drug traffickers, & artists live side by side. Louis Nowra is the guide to a place both real, and a state of mind.
Main title:
Kings Cross : a biography / by Louis Nowra
Author:
Imprint:
Sydney NewSouth Publishing 2013
Collation:
500 pages maps
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Author's note -- Map of Kings Cross -- Prologue -- They've come to stay -- Doncaster Hall -- The quarrel -- Falling -- William Street -- The swells of Woolloomooloo Hill -- Brougham Street -- A tap on the car window -- The revolutionary and the book collector -- Victoria Street -- The Golden Age -- Neon -- The underbelly of Australia's Montmartre -- Last orders -- 'There was a disgraceful state of things going on there' -- Fire -- Reaching for the sky -- Beggars -- Kings Cross is different -- Kellett Street -- Little Europe -- The devil is a woman -- Kings Cross Road -- Septic tanks -- 'You find this ugly, I find it lovely' -- Bayswater Road -- The neon lights are being turned on again -- Women on the edge -- Llankelly Place -- The glittering mile -- Roslyn Street -- 'It was like a horror movie in slow motion' -- Fitzroy Gardens -- Kitchen of Hell -- Macleay Street -- Halfway between a circus and a sewer -- The performing self -- Rejuvenation -- Darlinghurst Road -- We love Kings Cross
ISBN:
9781742233260 (paperback)
Dewey class:
994.41 KIN
Local class:
994.41
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
14318
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 994.41 KIN | Available |
| Penrith | Nonfiction | 994.41 KIN | Available |