The land before avocado : journeys in a lost Australia / Richard Glover.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : ABC Books / HarperCollins Australia Pty Limited, 2018.Description: 272 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cmISBN:- 9780733339813
- 0733339816
- Glover, Richard -- Family
- Glover, Richard
- Glover, Richard -- Childhood and youth
- Authors, Australian -- Biography
- Radio broadcasters -- Australia -- Biography
- Nineteen sixties -- Australia
- Nineteen seventies -- Australia
- Australian culture
- Australian history
- Nineteen sixties
- Nineteen seventies
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1965-
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1945-1965
- Australia -- Social conditions -- 1965-1972
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1965
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 1965-1972
- Australia -- History -- 1945-1965
- Australia -- History -- 1965-1972
- Australia
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Australia -- History -- 20th century
- Australian
- 994.06 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 994.06 GLO | Available | 068764 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-269) and index.
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 just how far we've come, and how much further we can go.
