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The Secret Life of the Gold Coast: A Journey into the Dark Heart of Paradise

By Brendan Shanahan

Book information

Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9780522864342, 9780522864359
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
464 kB (475037 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-04 11:55:20
Travel; Nonfiction; TRV000000

Description

The Gold Coast: City of the Future; metropolis of dreams. In less than fifty years a tiny holiday town of fibro shacks and mangrove swamps has grown to become a city of almost a million people and an embodiment of our unquenchable lust for surf, sun and sand. Set against a backdrop of marina developments for the near-dead, a rampant drug culture, the underground porn industry and the anarchy of schoolies week, The Secret Life of the Gold Coast is a disturbing but often comical expose that trawls the underbelly of Gold Coast life while pondering the elusive nature of Paradise and the unexpected consequences of our desires.

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