Kings Cross
eBook - PDF

Kings Cross

A Biography

  1. 510 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Kings Cross

A Biography

About this book

A longtime resident of Kings Cross, celebrated Australian author, playwright, and screenwriter Louis Lowra, in an ode to the neighborhood, cajoles readers into reimagining the most infamous and misunderstood place in Australia, a magnet for bohemianism, cosmopolitanism, and organized crime. In a wildly energetic book that walks the streets, sits in bars, chats with locals, and spends time in clubs and apartments where the walls, if they could talk, would tell a story or two, Nowra traverses the history and the future of his beloved neighborhood. He burrows beneath the sensationalist narrative of an underbelly of sex and sin to reveal stories and a cast of characters too astonishing to be fictitious. Backpackers, prostitutes, strippers, chefs, poets, beggars, booksellers, doctors, gangsters, judges, artists, and others live side-by-side in Kings Cross, and eyewitness, historian, and man-about-town Louis Nowra is the perfect guide to a no-holds-barred place that is as much physical as it is a state of mind.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. CONTENTS
  3. AUTHOR'S NOTE
  4. PROLOGUE
  5. They’ve come to stay
  6. Doncaster Hall
  7. The quarrel
  8. Falling
  9. William Street
  10. The Swells of Woolloomooloo Hill
  11. Brougham Street
  12. A tap on the car window
  13. The Revolutionary and the Book Collector
  14. Victoria Street
  15. ‘The Golden Age’
  16. Neon
  17. The underbelly of Australia’ s Montmartre
  18. Last orders
  19. ‘There was a disgraceful state of things going on there’
  20. Fire
  21. Reaching for the sky
  22. Beggars
  23. Kings Cross is different
  24. Kellett Street
  25. Little Europe
  26. The Devil is a woman
  27. Kings Cross Road
  28. Septic tanks
  29. ‘ You find this ugly, I find it lovely’
  30. Bayswater Road
  31. The neon lights are being turned on again
  32. Women on the edge
  33. Llankelly Place
  34. The Glittering Mile
  35. ‘ It was like a horror movi e in slow motion’
  36. Fitzroy Gardens
  37. Kitchen of hell
  38. Macleay Street
  39. Halfway between a circus and a sewer
  40. The performing self
  41. Rejuvenation
  42. Darlinghurst Road
  43. We ❤ Kings Cross
  44. NOTES
  45. ACK NOWLEDGEME NTS