Sunny side up

摘要

Bloomsbury's new series of short travel books, the Writer and the City, is shaping up nicely. Peter Carey's "30 Days in Sydney" follows Edmund White's engaging book about Paris, "The Flaneur", which appeared last year. Like Mr White, Mr Carey writes about an adopted city, not his home town: he grew up in rural Victoria and has lived in New York for the past ten years. But Sydney still calls him, even though it is a place for which he harbours strong, if mixed, feelings.