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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 City of Longing
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'He is mysterious and immensely wealthy, a banker. She is his apparent opposite, creative and idealistic. But she too is lost and unhappy. They are separated by oceans and continents and much more. Despite their seeming differences, they fall in love. They arrange to meet in New York. Afterwards they will fly to London and from there to Paris, his suite at The Ritz, and to his château in the South of France. But there are many surprises ahead, especially for the woman whose journey leads her to Morocco and finally to the Swiss Alps where she finds the answers she has been looking for.

This unconventional love story incorporates a contemporary backdrop of many elements — conspicuous wealth and globalisation; the harm and suffering caused by the politics of medicine; the world of art, myth and literature; the power of places and the ecstasy and agony of falling in love.' (Source: Australian Writers Network, October 2011.)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Bobby
  • Epigraph:
    'How much of life I spent in vain...' -Pushkin

    'Things are always different from what they might be.' - Henry James

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Arcadia , 2011 .
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      Extent: 198p.
      ISBN: 9781921875366
      Series: y separately published work icon Press On Arcadia (publisher), Melbourne : Arcadia , 2009-2015 Z1824488 2009 series - publisher novel 'Press On is published in partnership with Arcadia. In 2010, four Press On books were published by Press On Publishing in association with Arcadia, the general books' imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing. Authors Michael Wilding, Peter Corris, Phillip Edmonds and Inez Baranay began the first batch of Press On. Commissioned by Michael Wilding, eight more books join the series with new authors Morris Lurie, Garry Disher, Ross Fitzgerald, Trevor Jordan and Victoria Thompson. Felix Calvino's previously published A Hatful of Cherries Arcadia, 2009 has also taken on the Press On logo. Arcadia's 2011 Press On additions were launched at the Melbourne Writers Festival this year.' Source: www.scholarly.info/ (Sighted 15/11/2011). Number in series: 6

Works about this Work

Alexandrian Elegance a Faded Currency Patricia Anderson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 - 27 November 2011; (p. 23)

— Review of City of Longing Victoria Thompson , 2011 single work novel
Alexandrian Elegance a Faded Currency Patricia Anderson , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 - 27 November 2011; (p. 23)

— Review of City of Longing Victoria Thompson , 2011 single work novel
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