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  1. Kings Cross
    A Biography
    Author: Nowra, Louis
    Published: 2013; © 2013
    Publisher:  NewSouth, Sydney

    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... more

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek

     

    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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781742246550; 9781742233260
    Edition: 1st ed
    Subjects: Adventures -- Fiction; Kings -- Fiction; Rulers -- Fiction
    Scope: 1 online resource (509 pages)
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