Down in the City (Text Classics)

Harrower, Elizabeth

ISBN 10: 1922147044 / ISBN 13: 9781922147042

Editore: Text Classics, 2014

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• Titolo: Down in the City (Text Classics)
• Editore: Text Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1922147044
• ISBN 13: 9781922147042
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

From the author of The Watch Tower—hailed as "a brilliant achievement" by the Washington Post—a debut novel about a troubled and obsessive marriage, set against the backdrop of postwar Sydney.

First published in 1957, Down in the City announced Elizabeth Harrower as a major Australian writer.

Informazioni sull?autore

Elizabeth Harrower was born in Sydney in 1928. In 1951 Harrower moved to London. She travelled extensively and she began to write fiction. Her first novel Down in the City was published in 1957, and was followed by The Long Prospect a year later. In 1959 she returned to Sydney where she began working for the ABC and as a book reviewer. In 1960 she published The Catherine Wheel, the story of an Australian law student in London, her only novel not set in Sydney. The Watch Tower appeared in 1966. Between 1961 and 1967 she worked in publishing, for Macmillan.

No further novels were published though Harrower continued to write short fiction. Her work is austere, intelligent, ruthless in its perceptions about men and women. She was admired by many of her contemporaries, including Patrick White and Christina Stead, and is without doubt among the most important writers of the postwar period in Australia.

Elizabeth Harrower lives in Sydney.

Delia Falconer is the author of the highly acclaimed The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers.