Growing up in Australia / with an introduction by Alice Pung.
Publication details: Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., 2021.Description: 279 pages ; 21 cmISBN:- 9781760643188 (paperback)
- Immigrants' writings, Australian
- Sexual minorities -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- People with disabilities -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Youth -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Aboriginal Australians -- Anecdotes
- Coming of age -- Australia -- Anecdotes
- Multiculturalism -- Australia
- Anthologies
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- 21st century
- Australia -- Race relations
- Australia -- Biography
- Australia -- Social conditions
- Australia -- History
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| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 994.009 GRO | Available | 063683 |
Talking to my country / Stan Grant -- Reckoning / Magda Szubanski -- Piano lessons / Anna Goldsworthy -- Tourism / Benjamin Law -- The game is to hide / Rick Morton -- Her mother's daughter / Nyadol Nyuon -- Easter, 1969 / Katie Bryan -- Wei-Lei and me / Aditi Gouvernel -- Red dust, jet streams and Chanel No. 5 / Gayle Kennedy -- Land's edge / Tim Winton -- Hippotherapy / Alistair Baldwin -- Boobs, rags and Judy Blume / Phoebe Hart -- Nobody puts baby spice in a corner / Miranda Tapsell -- The wall of shame / Natalie Macken -- The little town on the railway track / Kerry Reed-Gilbert -- Sam / Faustina Agolley -- Perfect Chinese children / Vanessa Woods -- Be good, little migrants / Uyen Loewald -- Question marks and a theory of vision / Andy Jackson -- When words collide, words fail / Thinesh Thillainadarajah -- I was born this way / Carly Findlay -- Power / Hope Mathumbu -- Four stages / Rafeif Ismail -- A portait of the artist as a young larrikin -- / Lech Blaine -- St Louis / Oliver Reeson -- Don't touch alcohol / Sara El Sayed -- Coming in / Joo-Inn Chew -- Selected epistles / Olivia Muscat -- Bully for them / Christos Tsiolkas, as told to Fiona Scott-Norman -- Dear Australia, I love you but... / Candy Bowers -- The eleventh house / Sam Drummond -- Fird, Second, Third, Fourth / Tara June Winch.
This special collection is the perfect introduction to Black Inc.'s definitive 'Growing Up' series. Featuring pieces from Growing Up Asian, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia, it captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways. Growing Up in Australia also features gems from essential Australian memoirs such as Rick Morton's 100 Years of Dirt and Magda Szubanski's Reckoning. Contributors include Benjamin Law, Anna Goldsworthy, Nyadol Nyuon, Tara June Winch and many more. With a foreword by Alice Pung, this anthology is a wonderful gift for adult and adolescent readers alike.
