Brisbane / Matthew Condon
- Bib ID:
- 8596416
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Condon, Matthew (Matthew Steven), 1962-, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
- Thumbnail
- Edition:
- Updated Paperback Edition.
- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2020
- ©2020
- 1 online resource (313 pages) : illustrations, map.
- ISBN:
- 9781742245027 (EPUB)
- Series:
- City series
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access : Available online.
- Summary:
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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. Brisbane reveals 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. Taking readers on a unique personal journey, Matthew Condon unearths the city's history, sometimes literally - and paints 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. In a new epilogue, 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.
- Notes:
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- First published in 2010.
- Includes bibliograpical references (pages 303-309)
- Also available in print.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2020
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