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'A painting, a frog cake, a landmark, a statue, a haunting newspaper
photograph, a bucket of peaches, pink shorts in parliament, concert
tickets, tourist maps ...
Kerryn Goldsworthy's Adelaide is a museum of sorts, a personal guide to the city through a collection of iconic objects. Adelaide
navigates her southern home, discovering its identifying curios and
passing them to the reader to touch, inspect and marvel at. These
objects explore the beautiful, commonplace, dark and contradictory
history of Adelaide: the heat, the wine, the weirdness, the progressive
politics and the rigid colonial formality, the sinister horrors and the
homey friendliness. They all paint a lively portrait of her home city -
as remembered, lived in, thought about, missed, loved, hated, laughed
at, travelled to and from, seen from afar and close up by assorted
writers, citizens and visitors - but mainly as it exists in her memory
and imagination.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Epigraph: When you live in a place you learn all the stories of that place. Uncle Lewis Yerloburka O'Brien.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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SA Contenders
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 August 2012; (p. 20) -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , November no. 381 2011; (p. 29)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose -
The Subliminal City
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 22 October 2011; (p. 33) The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2011; (p. 36)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose -
Yes, that's Adelaide for You
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 October 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose -
Don's Conundrum
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 35, 36)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 91 no. 2 2011; (p. 31)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose -
Nice Shorts, but Where's the Ball
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 1-2 October 2011; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose -
Don's Conundrum
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 35, 36)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose -
Yes, that's Adelaide for You
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 22 October 2011; (p. 28)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose -
The Subliminal City
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 22 October 2011; (p. 33) The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2011; (p. 36)
— Review of Adelaide 2011 single work prose -
Writing the City
Sally Heath
(interviewer),
2011
single work
interview
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 70 no. 3 2011; (p. 179-189) 'The brief to 'write about the city you live in' has produced diverse books by five Australian writers. Another has just started to contemplate the process. The cities series was the brainchild of University of New South Wales Press, with Peter Timms' Hobart the first in the series to be published, in 2009. In 2010 Matthew Condon wrote Brisbane and Delia Falconer Sydney. Sophie Cunningham's Melbourne has just been published, and Adelaide by Kerryn Goldsworthy is due out in October. Paul Daley has just been commissioned to produce 'Canberra'. The series will continue around the country. The authors and I conducted an email conversation about the project, of which and edited version is presented here.' (p. 178)
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SA Contenders
2012
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 August 2012; (p. 20)
Awards
- 2012 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Award for Non-Fiction
- 2012 shortlisted The National Year of Reading 2012 Our Story Collection — South Australia
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Subjects:
- Adelaide, South Australia,
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