Description
SECONDHAND BOOK
For 130 years, Melbourne’s novelists and short story writers have been creating, in fiction, the city in which they lived and wrote. For some of their work the city, its streets and buildings, parks and suburbs, provided the setting; sometimes, the reference is more oblique.
The Imagined City chronicles a sense of place. In it 28 of Melbourne’s writers, from Henry Haydon on Port Phillip society in the 1840s to Helen Garner on the counter-culture in Carlton in the 1970s, reveal how the city has entered their fiction. Through it the reader can trace how, sometimes with affection, sometimes with quiet desperation, an urban landscape is transformed in the minds of its residents.
The Imagined City provides a fascinating opportunity to watch as the changes in a city and in the manners of its inhabitants are reflected in the imagination of successive generations of its writers.
Specifications:
Condition: Good – plastic wrapped, some fading to spine, general wear.
Publisher: Allen and Unwin
Year: 1983
Format: Hardback, with dustjacket
Pages: 130pp
ISBN: 0868610534
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