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The Land Before Avocado: Journeys in a Lost Australia by Richard Glover (Paperba
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780733339813
- ISBN-13
- 9780733339813
- UPC
- Does not apply
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- The Land before Avocado
- Item Height
- 214mm
- Publisher
- ABC Books
- Topic
- Mind, History
- Item Width
- 153mm
- Item Weight
- 355g
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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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 Australian
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Publisher
ABC Books
ISBN-13
9780733339813
eBay Product ID (ePID)
16046383924
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Land before Avocado
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Mind, History
Publication Year
2020
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
214mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
355g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
Australia
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- o***b (509)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseWonderful seller, highly recommend. Great communication, very responsive. Fast postage and delivery, really well packaged. Exactly as described. Thank you so much.
- u***u (18)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThanks so very much to this fabulous seller! who I would thoroughly recommend to anyone! As my purchase was quite close to Christmas I was worried I wouldn't get it in time. I contacted the seller for another delivery option and he was so happy and cheerful to oblige. My items arrived before Christmas (thank goodness) and were packed very securely and in great condition. So thankyou again, for your wonderful "Customer Service" it made my day. Kind Regards to you.NEW Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 2 by Gege Akutami (Paperback) FREE Shipping (#305687878863)
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- 30 May, 2019
If you're over 40, this book will make you laugh
Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: store.official
- 27 Dec, 2018
Very entertaining
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- 06 Dec, 2018
For the millenials
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- 06 Dec, 2018
So true and funny
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- 16 Jul, 2020
Fair
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- o***b (509)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseWonderful seller, highly recommend. Great communication, very responsive. Fast postage and delivery, really well packaged. Exactly as described. Thank you so much.
- u***u (18)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseThanks so very much to this fabulous seller! who I would thoroughly recommend to anyone! As my purchase was quite close to Christmas I was worried I wouldn't get it in time. I contacted the seller for another delivery option and he was so happy and cheerful to oblige. My items arrived before Christmas (thank goodness) and were packed very securely and in great condition. So thankyou again, for your wonderful "Customer Service" it made my day. Kind Regards to you.NEW Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 2 by Gege Akutami (Paperback) FREE Shipping (#305687878863)
- p***s (175)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseIn perfect condition, good price and is a great read on better communication strategies. Seller was prompt with sound but minimal packaging, yeh. Thank you.