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Down in the City

Down in the City

by Elizabeth Harrower
Paperback
Publication Date: 23/10/2013

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Introduced byDelia Falconer.
Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion-until flashyStan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life.Within a fortnight they are living in his Kings Cross flat.
Moody and erratic, proud of his well-bred wife yet bitterly resentful of her privilege, Stan isinvolved with his former girlfriend and a series of shady business deals. Esther, innocent anddesperate to please him, must endure his controlling ways.
This story of a troubled and obsessive marriage, set against the backdrop of postwar Sydney, isdevastating. First published in 1957, Down in the City announced Elizabeth Harrower as a majorAustralian writer.
ISBN:
9781922147042
9781922147042
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
23-10-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
306
Dimensions (mm):
198x128x20mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Elizabeth Harrower

Elizabeth Harrower was born in Sydney in 1928. She lived in Newcastle until her family moved back to Sydney when she was eleven. In 1951 Harrower travelled to London and began to write. Her first novel, Down in the City, was published there in 1957 and was followed by The Long Prospect a year later. In 1959 she returned to Sydney, where she worked in radio and then in publishing.

Her third novel, The Catherine Wheel, appeared in 1960. Harrower published The Watch Tower , the novel often called her masterpiece, in 1966. Four years later she finished In Certain Circles, but withdrew it from publication at the last moment. The novel was finally published in 2014, to great acclaim. As well as novels Harrower wrote short stories, most of which are collected in A Few Days in the Country (2015).

She is one of the most important postwar Australian writers. She was admired by many of her contemporaries, including Patrick White and Christina Stead, who both became lifelong friends. Her fiction is now reaching a new generation of readers and writers. Elizabeth Harrower lives in Sydney.

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