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The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover (Paperback, 2020)
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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.
- Buy It NowThe Land Before Avocado: Journeys in a Lost Australia by Richard Glover (English
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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'. 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 is 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, feel 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. PRAISE Richard Glover's just-published The Land Before Avocado is a wonderful and witty journey back in time to life in the early 1970s. For a start, he deftly reclaims the book's title fruit from those who have positioned it as a proxy for all that is wrong with today's supposedly feckless and spendthrift young adults. Rather than maligning the avocado (and young people), he cleverly appropriates the fruit as an exemplar of how far we have come since the 1970s' Richard Wakelin, Australian Financial Review '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 PRAISE FOR FLESH WOUNDS 'A funny, moving, very entertaining memoir' Bill Bryson, New York Times 'The best Australian memoir I've read is Richard Glover's Flesh Wounds' Greg Sheridan, The AustralianProduct Identifiers
PublisherABC Books
ISBN-139780733339813
eBay Product ID (ePID)16046383924
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Land before Avocado
AuthorRichard Glover
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicMind, History
Publication Year2020
TypeTextbook
Number of Pages288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height214mm
Item Width153mm
Item Weight355g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorRichard Glover
Country/Region of ManufactureAustralia
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- 30 May, 2019
If you're over 40, this book will make you laugh
Funny, interesting trip down memory lane for the over 40s, a reminder of how quickly society can change and a message of hope at a time we need one.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 27 Dec, 2018
Very entertaining
Nostalgic but written with humour Good, light read for holidays Takes you back and makes you compare between Australia then and now.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 06 Dec, 2018
For the millenials
Interesting reading and the perfect gift for my Melbournite foodie loving 21 year old daughter.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 06 Dec, 2018
So true and funny
All the who were born after 1990 should read this book. it will bring them back to reallityVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 16 Jul, 2020
Fair
I feel Glover was too cynical of past experiences. I am 80years old and I experienced the life he "knocks" and it wasn't as bad as he predicts. I found it cynical - not funny or amusing. Maybe a younger person would find it funny!Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 20 Jun, 2019
Read it and relax.
Wonderful memory jog through the time. Can so totally relate to all of it! So many laughs.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 22 Sep, 2024
Great book! Hilariously written. Really ...
Great book! Hilariously written. Really enjoyed reading it.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 09 Oct, 2020
Fantastic book!
Couldn't put it down. Rate it very highly.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 07 May, 2020
Recollections of youth
A good laugh if you were a child of the 50s and 60sVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 13 Dec, 2018
Not enough detail
Very superficial explanation of the what and why of the past. Many topics overlooked. Disappointing content.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
