A Biography is Louis Nowra's love letter to his adopted city
- Written by: Paul Ashton, Professor of Public History, University of Technology Sydney
Sydney Opera HouseDietmar Rabich/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-NC-NDLouis Nowra’s inspired biography of Sydney starts with a surprise visit to the city. He grew up in a housing commission estate in Melbourne. In 1959, while on a trip with his father to Wollongong in a truck to pick up a load of coke (for fireplaces, not drinking), his father took...
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