The Land Before Avocado. Journeys In A Lost Australia

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: ABC Books
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2018
Edition: First Edition

Description: 272 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exception is a small price clip to cover.

Publishers Description: The new book from the bestselling author of Flesh Wounds. A funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come. It was simpler time. We had more fun back then. Everyone could afford a house. Theres 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. Its a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and, now and then, surprisingly appealing. Its the Australia of his childhood. The Australia of the late 60s and early 70s. Lets break the news now: they didnt have avocado. Its 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 didnt 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 weve come - and how much further we can go. Industry Reviews This is vintage Glover - warm, wise and very, very funny. Brimming with excruciating insights into life in the late sixties and early seventies, The Land Before Avocado explains why this was the cultural revolution we had to have Hugh Mackay Hilarious and horrifying, this is the ultimate intergenerational conversation starter Annabel Crabb

ISBN: 9780733339813