| Description |
1 online resource |
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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 |
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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 ❤ Kings Cross; NOTES; ACK NOWLEDGEME NTS |
| Summary |
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, strippers, chefs, mad men, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, sailors, musicians, drug traffickers, eccentrics, judges and artists live side by side. Part flaneur, part historian and part eyewitness, Louis Nowra is the best possible guide to a place both real, and a state of mind |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
TRAVEL -- Australia & Oceania.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Cultural Heritage.
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Manners and customs.
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History & Archaeology.
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Regions & Countries - Australia & Pacific Islands - Oceania.
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Kings Cross (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
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Kings Cross (N.S.W.) -- History
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Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs
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New South Wales -- Sydney.
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| Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015376478 |
| ISBN |
9781742246550 |
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1742246559 |
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9781742241562 |
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1742241565 |
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1742233260 |
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9781742233260 |
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