- Title:
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Down in the City
- Written by:
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Elizabeth Harrower
- Read by:
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Deidre Rubenstein
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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8 hours 37 minutes
- Published:
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September 28 2017
- Available Date:
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September 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489407429
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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‘[Harrower] reveals an astonishing facility to reveal a world in a few brush strokes.’
The West Australian
Acclaimed-author Elizabeth Harrower's stunning debut, first published in 1957.
Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family’s Rose Bay mansion – until flashy Stan 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 is involved with his former girlfriend and a series of shady business deals. Esther, innocent and desperate to please him, must endure his controlling ways.
This story of a troubled and obsessive marriage, set against the backdrop of postwar Sydney, is devastating. First published in 1957, Down in the City announced Elizabeth Harrower as a major Australian writer.