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'Now an adult on L-plates, Debbie and her girlfriends reveal what women talk about when there are no men around. Prepare yourself for full-frontal comedic camaraderie.
'After breaking off with both her best friend and boyfriend, Debbie runs away to the inner-city world of punk rock, dodgy jobs, new mates and R-rated adventures.
'It’s the kaleidoscopic 1980s, a time of perms, shoulder pads, Blondie and Bowie, prawn cocktails, fondue parties and mistaking promiscuity for feminism. The blokes are laughing all the way to the sperm bank – of course they’re for ‘free love’ as they don’t have to pay for it.
'Preyed upon by married men and misogynistic bosses, girlfriends are the only people you can rely on. Debbie’s female pals are her human Wonderbras – uplifting and supportive. But it’s not until the girls’ night out that these friends really peel off to their emotional undies … And it’s a psychological striptease which reveals some jaw-dropping truths.
'With equal parts humour and pathos, Kathy Lette, one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism, exposes all the fun and foolish things girls do when scrabbling to find their high-heeled feet in the world.' (Publication summary)
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Sequel to Puberty Blues.
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Puberty Blues
Carlton
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McPhee Gribble
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1979
Z355484
1979
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
''By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by night - in the back of cars, under the bowling alley, on Cronulla Beach, or, if you were lucky, in a bed while someone's parents were out - you paid off your friendship ring.' For Deb and Sue, life is about surfies, panel vans, straight-leg Levis, nicking off from school, getting wasted and fitting in. But why should guys have all the fun? Puberty Blues is raw, humorous and honest. An Australian classic. 'A profoundly moral story' -- Germaine Greer 'I don't recall reading Puberty Blues so much as devouring it. I was about thirteen, alone in my bedroom with the door firmly shut. I was fascinated' -- Kylie Minogue'
Works about this Work
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Post-puberty, Men Still Behaving Badly
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 December 2017; (p. 14)
— Review of After the Blues 2017 single work novel'Kathy Lette was famous, or at least notorious, in Australia when she was only 16, following the 1979 publication of Puberty Blues, which she wrote with Gabrielle Carey. The novel was a startling, even frightening, account of the surfie culture around Cronulla in the 1970s.' (Introduction)
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Post-puberty, Men Still Behaving Badly
2017
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 30 December 2017; (p. 14)
— Review of After the Blues 2017 single work novel'Kathy Lette was famous, or at least notorious, in Australia when she was only 16, following the 1979 publication of Puberty Blues, which she wrote with Gabrielle Carey. The novel was a startling, even frightening, account of the surfie culture around Cronulla in the 1970s.' (Introduction)
- Cronulla, Caringbah - Cronulla area, Sutherland area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
- Byron Bay, Byron Bay - Broken Head area, Far North Coast, New South Wales,
- 1980s
