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Kings Cross : a biography /
Louis Nowra burrows beneath the sensationalist Underbelly 'sex and sin' narrative, revealing stories and a cast of characters - some household names others little-known - that not even a writer could conjure up. Kings Cross is a no-holds barred place, where backpackers, prostitutes, stripp...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sydney :
NewSouth Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- AUTHOR'S NOTE; PROLOGUE; They've come to stay; Doncaster Hall; The quarrel; Falling; William Street; The Swells of Woolloomooloo Hill; Brougham Street; A tap on the car window; The Revolutionary and the Book Collector; Victoria Street; 'The Golden Age'; Neon; The underbelly of Australia' s Montmartre; Last orders; 'There was a disgraceful state of things going on there'; Fire; Reaching for the sky; Beggars; Kings Cross is different; Kellett Street; Little Europe; The Devil is a woman; Kings Cross Road; Septic tanks; ' You find this ugly, I find it lovely'; Bayswater Road.
- The neon lights are being turned on againWomen on the edge; Llankelly Place; The Glittering Mile; ' It was like a horror movi e in slow motion'; Fitzroy Gardens; Kitchen of hell; Macleay Street; Halfway between a circus and a sewer; The performing self; Rejuvenation; Darlinghurst Road; We {u2764} Kings Cross; NOTES; ACK NOWLEDGEME NTS.