A Window on Our Street: Sondering through Covid-19 in Northcote
Author | : Pat Walsh |
Publisher | : Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2020-10-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9786024814861 |
ISBN-13 | : 6024814860 |
Rating | : 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.