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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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Kensington, A :
University New South Wales Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- CONTENTS
- 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 again
- Women 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 and#x2764; Kings Cross
- NOTES
- ACK NOWLEDGEME NTS.