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Title: Down in the City: Text Classics Edition
Author: HARROWER ELIZABETH
Illustrator: FALCONER DELIA (INTRO)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 23/10/2013
Imprint: TEXT PUBLISHERS
Price: $12.95
Publishing status: Active
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.
ISBN: 9781922147042
Pages: 352
Edition: 01