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The land before avocado : journeys in a lost Australia / Richard Glover.

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994.05 GLOV
Adult Non Fiction   Double Bay . Available .  
994.05 GLOV
Adult Non Fiction   Paddington . Available .  
994.05 GLOV
Adult Non Fiction   Watsons Bay . On Loan . 12 Apr 2024
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Record Number 791153
ISBN 9780733339813 (paperback)
Author Glover, Richard author.
Title The land before avocado : journeys in a lost Australia / Richard Glover.
Publisher/Date Sydney, NSW : HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2018.
©2018
Pagination etc. 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliography : pages 267-269.
Summary Note 'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'. There's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and, now and then, surprisingly appealing. It's the Australia of his childhood. The Australia of the late '60s and early '70s. Let's break the news now: they didn't have avocado. It's a place of funny clothing and food that was appalling, but amusingly so. It also the land of staggeringly awful attitudes - often enshrined in law - towards anybody who didn't fit in. The Land Before Avocado will make you laugh and cry, be angry and inspired. And leave you wondering how bizarre things were, not so long ago. Most of all it will make you realise how far we've come - and how much further we can go.
Subject - Name Glover, Richard
Subject Radio broadcasters -- Australia -- Biography
Authors, Australian -- Biography
Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1965-
Corporate Author Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Shelf Location 994.05 GLOV
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