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30 Days in Sydney: A Wildly Distorted Account by Peter Carey
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Writer and the City
Peter Carey captures our imagination with a brilliant and unexpected portrait of Sydney. In the midst of the 2000 Olympic games, Australia native Peter Carey returns to Sydney after a seventeen-year absence. Examining the urban landscape as both a tourist and a prodigal son, Carey structures his account ...Show more
Florence: A Delicate Case by David Leavitt
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Writer and the City
Why has Florence always drawn so many English and American visitors? (At the turn of the century, the Anglo-American population numbered more than thirty thousand.) Why have men and women fleeing sex scandals traditionally settled here? What is it about Florence that has made it so fascinating--and so r ...Show more
Prague Pictures: Portraits of a City by John Banville
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Writer and the City
Prague is the magic capital of Europe. Since the days of Emperor Rudolf II, "devotee of the stars and cultivator of the spagyric art," who in the late 1500s summoned alchemists and magicians from all over the world to his castle on Hradeany hill, it has been a place of mystery and intrigue. Wars, revolu ...Show more
The Flaneur: A Stroll Through the Paradoxes of Paris by Edmund White
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Category: Travel Literature | Series: Writer and the City
A flaneur is a stroller, a loiterer, someone who ambles through city streets in search of adventure and fulfillment. Edmund White, who lived in Paris for sixteen years, wanders through the streets and avenues and along the quays, into parts of Paris virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many Paris ...Show more
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