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Bright and wicked

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February 2014, no. 358

Down in the City by Elizabeth Harrower

Text Classics, $12.95 pb, 303 pp, 9781922147042

Bright and wicked

by
February 2014, no. 358

Elizabeth Harrower’s début novel was first published by Cassell in London in 1957. Down in the City begins with a hymn to Sydney, with its beaches, harbour suburbs, city arcades – and disreputable Kings Cross, ‘a haven for the foreigner and racketeer; a beacon for long-haired boys, mascaraed women and powdered men. It is Montmartre: it is bright and wicked.’

Susan Sheridan reviews 'Down in the City' by Elizabeth Harrower

Down in the City

by Elizabeth Harrower

Text Classics, $12.95 pb, 303 pp, 9781922147042

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