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'Barry Divola's Nineteen Seventysomething is a requiem for bygone days. In the fictional suburb of Braithwaite, we meet Charlie during the listless weeks of his summer holidays. Against a backdrop of buzzing cicadas, Dragstar bikes, schoolboy rock bands, church youth groups, and Top 40 radio, Barry Divola deftly evokes that awkward, exhilarating journey from childhood to adolescence. Told with humour, poignancy and authenticity, Nineteen Seventysomething marks the familiar stages of teenage awakening - in friendship, desire and love.' (From the publisher's website.)
Notes
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Dedication: For my mother and father, and Bert and Dolce.
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Epigraph:
And the song said 'Let's be happy,
I was happy,
It never made me happy before.
It asked, 'Do you remember?'
I remember,
Remember like it wasn't long ago.
And the song says 'Don't be lonely'
It makes me lonely, I hear it and I'm lonely more and more.
-Yo La Tengo, 'Last Days of Disco'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Long Story Shorts from Affirm Press
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 70 no. 3 2011;
— Review of Having Cried Wolf 2010 selected work short story ; Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel ; Under Stones 2010 selected work short story ; Known Unknowns 2010 selected work short story -
In Short, It's a Search for the 'Grainy Truth'
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , June vol. 5 no. 5 2010; (p. 18-19) -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 321 2010; (p. 63)
— Review of Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel -
Review
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 April 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel -
Nostalgia and Dark Comedy for Starters
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 April 2010; (p. 33)
— Review of Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel ; Under Stones 2010 selected work short story
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 89 no. 6 2010; (p. 37)
— Review of Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel -
Making Much of the Short Form
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 March 2010; (p. 13)
— Review of Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel ; Under Stones 2010 selected work short story -
Cover Notes
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 28 March 2010; (p. 23)
— Review of Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel -
Nostalgia and Dark Comedy for Starters
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 April 2010; (p. 33)
— Review of Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel ; Under Stones 2010 selected work short story -
Review
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 April 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of Nineteen Seventysomething 2010 single work novel -
In Short, It's a Search for the 'Grainy Truth'
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , June vol. 5 no. 5 2010; (p. 18-19)
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Settings:
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1970s
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