Gabrielle Carey (1959–2023)
Autore di Puberty Blues: A Surfie Saga
Sull'Autore
Gabrielle Carey is an author who wrote Moving among Strangers: Randolph Stow and My Family which made the National Biography Award for biographical writing and memoir 2015 shortlist. (Bowker Author Biography)
Opere di Gabrielle Carey
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1959-01-10
- Data di morte
- 2023-05-02
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Luogo di morte
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Attività lavorative
- novelist
short-story writer
memoirist
biographer
senior lecturer (Creative Writing)
young adult writer - Relazioni
- Carey, Alex (father)
- Organizzazioni
- University of Technology, Sydney
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A deceptively simple story of two high school girls that perfectly captures the language of an era.
I think this book suffered from my attempt to read it on a cross-continental flight. I found it quite disjointed and struggled to follow the threads linking Stow with Carey's family. I also must confess to being basically unfamiliar with Stow's work, which further distanced me from the memoir's explorations of the geographies and landscapes of Stow's writing.
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- Opere
- 12
- Utenti
- 258
- Popolarità
- #88,950
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 7
- ISBN
- 38
Puberty Blues is an Australian cult-classic and it's the book that parents give to their children when they become a teenager to dissuade them from experimenting with drugs and sex.
I was a little bit older when I read this book and so I feel like I didn't get as much from it if I had read it at 15 or 16 but nevertheless, I consumed this book. It was a super fast, rapid read that pulled you in and didn't let you go until the end.
The book centres around two girls, Deb and Sue while they try to navigate high school and all of its trappings. What I liked about this book was its bluntness, its rapid descent into drug use, (I think eating disorders?) and the dangers of unprotected sex. I liked that about this book because it felt real, it felt honest, it felt raw.
I won't tell you what happens in the end because I don't want to spoil it, but these two girls are incredible characters to get to know.
There are lots and lots of trigger warnings here for underaged sex, rape, drug taking and everything else but I would say it's a feminist-friendly work and the scenes Lette writes are often used to make a point, to expose the awful sexism of the Australian surf scene in the 1970's.
Thanks, Lette, for these girls.… (altro)