Carey Peter. 30 Days in Sidney

A wildly distorted account.After living abroad for years, novelist Peter Carey returns home to Sydney and attempts to capture its character. Seeking the help of his old friends, Carey is soon drawn into their strange, anarchic worlds, each one orbiting the place he has come back to see. The result is a wild and wonderful journey of discovery and rediscovery as bracing as the southerly bluster that sometimes batters Sydney’s shores. Famous sights such as Bondi Beach, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge and the Blue Mountains all take on a strange new intensity when exposed to the penetrating gaze of the author and his friends.30 Days in Sydney offers the reader an enchanting glimpse behind the facades and the Venetian blinds of the city.This is a fabulously idiosyncratic small masterpiece . it’s so good it takes your breath away.—Times (UK)Peter Carey received the Booker Prize for
Oscar and Lucinda and again for True
History of the Kelly Gang. His other awards
include the Commonwealth Writers' Prize
and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. His
most recent novel His Illegal Self was published
in 2008. Born in Australia in 1943, he now
lives in New York, where he is the director of
the Hunter College MFA program in creative
writing.