Down in the City
Text Classics, $12.95 pb, 303 pp, 9781922147042
Fiction
Bright and wicked
by Susan Sheridan •
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.’
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