Text Classics: Sydney Bridge Upside Down

Text Classics: Sydney Bridge Upside Down
Kate de Goldi, David Ballantyne
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 304pg
26 Apr 2012 AU
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9781921922374
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There was an old man who lived on the edge of the world and he had a horse called Sydney Bridge Upside Down. He was a scar-faced old man and his horse was a slow-moving bag of bones, and I start with this man and his horse because they were there for all the terrible happenings up the coast that summer, always somewhere around. A great, untamed story about childhood, a summer holiday and a sinister tragedy that looms over everything.
'What begins as the story of an ordinary country boy quickly turns strange and unpredictable indeed...Funny, inventively written, and more than slightly odd, "Sydney Bridge Upside Down" makes a long-awaited and welcome return.'Sonya Hartnett'It holds in heartbreaking tension that point between innocence and experience, sanity and disarray that we recognize in works as disparate as Iain Banks's "The Wasp Factory" and Hal Porter's "The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony", in which the private catechisms of childhood and adolescence are translated into an adult tongue.'"Weekend Australian"'How did we fail to give this gripping, funny, desperately sad, great New Zealand novel, set "on the edge of the world," its due when it was first published in 1968?...Not until last year when l was urged to read it again did l fully understand what a masterpiece Ballantyne had pulled off.'"NZ Herald"'"Sydney Bridge Upside Down" is a gothic masterpiece that subverts many of the norms of realist fiction in a way that justifies its reputation as not only one of the most important local novels of the 1960s, but one whose terms seem clearer with the benefit of hindsight and thus resonate even more insistently today.'"Listener"
David Ballantyne was born in Auckland in 1924, and died in 1986. He worked as a journalist in London and Auckland and wrote his first novel at the age of twenty-three. Sydney Bridge Upside Down, the fifth of eight novels, was first published in 1968.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781921922374
Published: 26 Apr 2012
Published In: Australia
Imprint: Text Classics
Publisher: Text Publishing Co
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 304
Dewey: 823.914

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