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SKU: 9781742237190 Category: Product ID: 71502

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Title: Brisbane
Author: CONDON MATTHEW
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/11/2020
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active

I keep coming back to the light of Brisbane. If you are born into it, this palette of gentle pinks and oranges at dawn and dusk, the blast white of midday in summer, the lemon luminescence of mid-morning and mid-afternoon, you keep it with you, and measure all other light by it. If you live away from it, then step back into it, it is the first thing that tells you you're home.

In this book, writer Matthew Condon rediscovers the city of his childhood. He may have moved away from Brisbane as a young adult, escaping a repressive government, but writes that he always had his city inside him. He returns after many years with his own family and finds the urge to trace the contours of this city that made him and discover the history of a place he thought he knew.

Condon takes the reader on a unique personal journey, unearthing the city's history sometimes literally and painting a portrait of transformation from a sleepy capital city that's more like a big country town, to a vibrant, confident place, but one where time can still move slowly.

Brisbane tells of a city of wooden houses where mango trees abound, where the serpentine river seems to be of the city and yet somehow not, where ghostly memories of demolished landmarks like Cloudland and The Bellevue Hotel hover and where the chime of the City Hall clock echoes through time and place.

In a new Epilogue written for this edition Condon returns to the house he grew up in; standing and looking out from the verandah, the past collides with the present, but the view is as he remembers it.

' a beautifully produced guide to the city that also evokes the soul of the place and establishes the historical context.' The Brisbane News

'Dismayed, enmeshed and enchanted by Brisbane, he has added himself to the long line of its eccentric rhapsodists.' Peter Pierce, The Canberra Times

'One of the finest writers of his generation Condon weaves forensic examination of the city's ever-shifting history through intimate personal recollections of his childhood perceptions of the place.' John Birmingham, The Monthly

Series: City series
ISBN: 9781742237190
Dimension: 178mm X 110mm
Edition: 01

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Dimensions 178 × 110 mm