Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook213 pages3 hours
Dark Night: Walking with McCahon
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
Out on that hallowed ground I felt my own consciousness go, not into exile or oblivion but into what was round about . . . like McCahon when he was lost in here, I had surrendered my identity; I had, like him, become just another entity among entities: as the trees pulled up moisture from the earth and exhaled it through their leaves into the air, so too did I inhale and exhale, so too did the insects, the birds, the animals; clouds and stars were likewise mortal bodies that expanded and contracted rhythmically for a long or short while then passed away. In 1984, in the palm grove in Sydney's Botanic Gardens, the artist Colin McCahon went missing. He was found by police early next morning in Centennial Park, kilometres away, with no memory of who he was or where he had been. They took him to St Vincent's Hospital where he remained, a complete unknown, while a major retrospective exhibition of his paintings opened on the other side of town. In Dark Night, Martin Edmond walks in McCahon's footsteps, past pubs and monuments, art galleries and churches, barracks and parks: to accompany him some way into the darkness of his end. Edmond's record of the journey is a brilliant exploration of a city and its denizens; of the nature of art and the foundations of faith; and of the shadowy crossroads where they intersect.
Unavailable
Related to Dark Night
Related ebooks
Major Prophets of To-Day Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAbroad at Home: American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Republic of the Future; or, Socialism a Reality Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Millennial Pedestrian: Poems About Walking Around in Central Park and Other Places Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Hundred Yard Dash Man Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEye Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Measure of the Rule Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Joseph Pennell's pictures of the Panama Canal Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBicycle Thieves: Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Children of the Air Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne Last Homecoming Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEaster Rising: A Memoir of Roots and Rebellion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Off the Tracks: A Meditation on Train Journeys in a Time of No Travel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Sea and the Jungle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCloser to Stone Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Vine: An Urban Legend: City Quartet, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Miracle Of The Bells Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5That Year in Madrid Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Book of Railway Journeys Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAtlantis: Three Tales Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Three-Mile Bridge: (Across Pensacola Bay on a Span of Poems) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNo Name Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMemoirs of My Dead Life (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything I Own Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOut of Istanbul: A Journey of Discovery along the Silk Road Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5News from the Duchy Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRepetition: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Malarkey Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Entertainers and the Rich & Famous For You
The Woman in Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Make Love Like a Porn Star: A Cautionary Tale Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5IT'S ALL IN YOUR HEAD Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Me: An Oprah's Book Club Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Down the Rabbit Hole: Curious Adventures and Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The History of Sketch Comedy: A Journey through the Art and Craft of Humor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsElvis and Me Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Confessions of a Prairie Bitch: How I Survived Nellie Oleson and Learned to Love Being Hated Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Is This Anything? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Counting the Cost Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yes Please Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowie: An Illustrated Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Coreyography: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Open Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Taste: My Life Through Food Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Robin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Black Unicorn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Me: Elton John Official Autobiography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mommie Dearest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Life in Parts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Mormon: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Dark Night
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
1 rating0 reviews