A Window on Our Street: Sondering through Covid-19 in Northcote
- ISBN-10
- 6024814860
- ISBN-13
- 9786024814861
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-10-26
- Publisher
- Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia
- Author
- Pat Walsh
Description
Thanks to the COVID-19 lockdown, Pat Walsh has re-discovered the street in Melbourne where heÕs lived for forty years. Sondering like a teddy bear, heÕs been treated to glimpses into lives, vivid and complex like his own, that have scrolled past on the screen of his front window. His appreciation is a mix of history, anecdote and whimsy, both serious and playful in tone and laced with humour. COVID-affected, he reveals that he innocently imported a Russian virus to Northcote. But then comforts readers by morphing into the sun that, Dylan Thomas style, sends a blessing to his street and its doomed but iconic gum trees.
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