30 Days In Sydney

Superficially a piece of Travel Writing , ''30 Days in Sydney'' is perhaps more of a view into the Psyche of Carey, an Australian returning home after a 17 year absence, his motley crew of friends and Sydney siders in general.

The book takes the form of an Impressionistic , possibly somewhat fictionalised, account of Carey's brief stay, and of his attempts to gather his required material. During his time in Sydney, around the 2000 Olympic Games , he badgered his friends with a battered tape recorder, in order to get them to give their own stories and impressions of the city. Carey wishes to structure the book around the Elements of Earth , Wind , Fire and Water , and his friends, sometimes reluctantly, oblige. One tells of his attempts to rescue his home from a Bushfire , and another of a near death experience during the disastrous 1998 Sydney To Hobart Yacht Race .

Meanwhile Carey's own narrative digresses into history and anecdote, touching on Sydney's uneasy race relations and a horrific recurring dream involving the Harbour Bridge , and culminating in a dramatic late night incident in a rooftop Squat .

Carey finishes the book by stating "''A metropolis is, by definition, inexhaustible, and by the time I departed, thirty days later, Sydney was as unknowable to me as it had been on that clear April morning when I arrived.''"

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