Carys: Diary of a Young Girl, Adelaide 1940-42 - Couverture souple

Harding Browne, Carys

 
9781925706291: Carys: Diary of a Young Girl, Adelaide 1940-42
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 192570629X ISBN 13 : 9781925706291
Editeur : ETT Imprint, 2018

Synopsis

In 1940 a seventeen year old girl called Carys Harding Browne comes of age in Adelaide, Australia. At St Mark's College, young, clever men meet together to share their love of poetry. However by December 1940, St Mark's College is leased to the Royal Australian Air Force as an embarkation depot. The Second World War is in earnest. This story is about young people growing up and falling in love against the backdrop of war where dances, friendship and the arts become a consolation in a fragile and uncertain time. It is, above all, the diary of a young girl finding herself amidst the impact of war.

'This is a literary time capsule, a fastidious, vivid and shameless record of two pivotal years in Adelaide's history. Carys was part of a fast set which drank sherry, danced until dawn, fell in and out of love, read the latest books, saw all the shows, frolicked in the parklands and loved to thrill-seek. Some among this decadent generation were to become famous names. Pre-war, theirs was an antipodean Scott Fitzgerald life; their wild joie de vivre being piqued as the young poets and promising university students signed up and left to fight, several soon to die. Carys was too unruly to be given her dream job as a journalist but, as this wonderful book reveals, she was a very gifted diarist.' - Samela Harris.

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Éditeur
ETT Imprint
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
192570629X
ISBN 13 
9781925706291
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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