Sydney Bridge Upside Down - (Text Classics) by David Ballantyne (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This is the great unread New Zealand novel--a gothic thriller, a coming-of-age story and a sinister family tragedy.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>What begins as the story of an ordinary country boy quickly turns strange and unpredictable indeed. . . . Funny, inventively written, and more than slightly odd, <i>Sydney Bridge Upside Down</i> makes a long-awaited and welcome return.--Sonya Hartnett</p><p>A great, untamed story about childhood, a summer holiday, and a sinister tragedy that looms over everything.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'What begins as the story of an ordinary country boy quickly turns strange and unpredictable indeed...Funny, inventively written, and more than slightly odd, <i>Sydney Bridge Upside Down</i> makes a long-awaited and welcome return.'<br>Sonya Hartnett <p/>'It holds in heartbreaking tension that point between innocence and experience, sanity and disarray that we recognize in works as disparate as Iain Banks's <i>The Wasp Factory</i> and Hal Porter's <i>The Watcher on the Cast-Iron Balcony</i>, in which the private catechisms of childhood and adolescence are translated into an adult tongue.'<br><i>Weekend Australian</i> <p/>'How did we fail to give this gripping, funny, desperately sad, great New Zealand novel, set "on the edge of the world", its due when it was first published in 1968?...Not until last year when l was urged to read it again did l fully understand what a masterpiece Ballantyne had pulled off.'<br><i>NZ Herald</i> <p/>'<i>Sydney Bridge Upside Down</i> is a gothic masterpiece that subverts many of the norms of realist fiction in a way that justifies its reputation as not only one of the most important local novels of the 1960s, but one whose terms seem clearer with the benefit of hindsight and thus resonate even more insistently today.'<br><i>Listener</i><br><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>David Ballantyne</b> was born in Auckland in 1924, and died in 1986. He worked as a journalist in London and Auckland and wrote his first novel at the age of twenty-three. <i>Sydney Bridge Upside Down</i>, the fifth of eight novels, was first published in 1968. <p/><b>Kate De Goldi</b> was born in Christchurch. She is a regular radio and television book reviewer in New Zealand. Her books for young adults are published internationally to great acclaim.
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