Ebook {Epub PDF} Cairo by Chris Womersley

 · Cairo, by Chris Womersley. Cairo is a most interesting departure for Melbourne author Chris Womersley. In Bereft (see my review) he fashioned a bewitching novel in Australian Gothic; in Cairo he has fictionalised one of Melbourne’s most notorious art heists. I predict that the book will show up in any number of www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. In Cairo, Chris Womersley has taken the theft of Weeping Woman and re-imagined it from the perspective of a young innocent from the kind of country town McCaughey was referring to when he called Australia a philistine nation. Seventeen-year-old Tom Button moves from (fictional) Dunley to the book’s eponymous block of flats and is soon exposed to the bohemian lifestyle he is looking www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 9 mins.  · Cairo is a most interesting departure for Melbourne author Chris Womersley. In Bereft (see my review) he fashioned a bewitching novel in Australian Gothic; in Cairo he has fictionalised one of Melbourne’s most notorious art heists. I predict that the book will show up in any number of shortlists /5().

Chris Womersley Cairo Scribe Publications PB pp $ Robyne Young is a writer of fiction, poetry and non-fiction and blogs at www.doorway.ru You can buy this book from Abbey's here. To see if it is available from Newtown Library, click here. Chris Womersley. Frustrated by country life and eager for adventure and excitement, seventeen-year-old Tom Button moves to the city to study. Once there, and living in a run-down apartment block called Cairo, he is befriended by the eccentric musician Max Cheever, his beautiful wife Sally, and their close-knit circle of painters and poets. Chris Womersley. I am the author of four novels, City of Crows, Cairo, Bereft and The Low Road, as well as numerous short stories and occasional reviews and essays. My first short story collection, A Lovely and Terrible Thing, was published in In addition, my short fiction has been published in literary journals such as Granta, Meanjin.

Cairo by Chris Womersley. Reviewed by Alan Vaarwerk. 28 Aug Languishing in a country town in the s, year-old Tom Button yearns for escape. When his favourite aunt passes away, he seizes the opportunity to move into her old apartment in a run-down Fitzroy complex named Cairo. Here he meets an eccentric group of artists and bohemians, including the enigmatic musician Max Cheever and his beautiful wife, Sally. Cairo; By: Chris Womersley; Narrated by: Damien Warren-Smith; Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins Unabridged Audiobook. Cairo is a most interesting departure for Melbourne author Chris Womersley. In Bereft (see my review) he fashioned a bewitching novel in Australian Gothic; in Cairo he has fictionalised one of Melbourne’s most notorious art heists. I predict that the book will show up in any number of shortlists.