Puberty blues by gabrielle carey abebooks passion for books. They say that your adolescent teenage years are the years to cherish, but i think otherwise. It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was also the inspiration for the 1981 film puberty blues. For deb and sue, life is about surfies, panel vans, straightleg levis, nicking off from school, getting wasted and fitting in. Heres a first look at puberty blues, a brand new australian television series airing on network ten in 2012. The film is based on the 1979 novel puberty blues, by gabrielle carey and kathy lette, which is a protofeminist teen novel. Gabrielle teaches writing at the university of technology, sydney. Melania trump reads easter book via twitter after canceling white house easter egg roll ind ivanka tells british prime. Puberty blues traces the lives of two adolescent females who have spent the first part of their lives in a group by themselves, while desperately trying to break into the in. Promo for new aussie drama puberty blues, based on the book.
Goodreads members who liked puberty blues also liked. Channel ten have just commissioned a second 8 hour mini series. Puberty blues is a 1979 novel by gabrielle carey and kathy lette. Truth masquerades as fiction as kathy lette and gabrielle carey portray themselves, at thirteen years. The book was released in 1979 when the girls were only 18 years old, and appeared on the big screen two years later. Puberty blues is an iconic australian book that based on a witheringly brutal and honest account of two best friends growing up in the misogynistic surf culture of cronulla aka the shire during the 1970s. No beating around the bush when it comes to sex ed in. Puberty blues premium content premium content arts hub is pleased to bring you an extract from puberty blues the latest in the australian screen classics series from currency press. Puberty blues is a story about a nation growing up. Inseparable friends, debbie and sue, want to travel with the cool. On the surface, this film can be seen for what it is, a stark realization of teen angst in cronulla, at the start of the eighties. Puberty blues by gabrielle carey penguin books australia. Arts hub is pleased to bring you an extract from puberty blues the latest in the australian screen classics series from currency press. It was adapted into film in 1981 by bruce beresford and was made into a tv series in 2012 the novel and film focus on the two main.
Gabrielle carey is often unfairly referred to as the other writer of puberty blues first published in 1979, overshadowed by the effusive kathy lette, who has written a series of laughoutloud best sellers. It has long been controversial with adults but much. It has long been controversial with adults but much sought out by teenagers for its depictions of adolescent sex. Puberty blues, by film and my own society and culture. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by gabrielle carey and kathy lette which is a protofeminist teen book about. Puberty blues, by film and my own society and culture 1485 words 6 pages when examining the 1980s film puberty blues, using techniques of content analysis and personal reflection, i have observed. First there was my actual puberty, then the book about it called puberty blues, a slim creation that speaks volumes its like straight literary vegemite, no butter followed by the bruce beresford film of the book. Growing up is hard, but going through puberty is even harder.
Puberty blues is an iconic australian movie and book and tv show that forever immortalised the youth culture of the late 70searly 80s, including the glorious slang. Puberty blues is a leisurely, entertaining tale about a group of teenagers fumbling, fighting and fretting their way through adolescence. Sequence being analysed can be seen in the above video 4. It also marked the starting point of kathy lettes writing career. The sexism, the bullying, the infidelity, the deceit and the teenage awkwardness made it uncomfortable to watch at. Find books like puberty blues from the worlds largest community of readers. Puberty blues airs on network ten, wednesdays at 8. Puberty blues is an australian, comingofage film directed by bruce beresford. The text publishing company and random house australia are delighted to announce that they have combined forces to publish the iconic puberty blues by gabrielle carey and kathy lette. Puberty blues, which opens today at the cinema studio, is based on a novel of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which purported to tell all about the mores of surfer teen. Puberty blues is the biography which launched kathy lettes writing career and made her famous. Puberty blues 1979 is a novel by the australian writers gabrielle carey and kathy lette.
Written 20 years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie. Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey. People were shocked to read about casual sex of years olds and parents suddenly realized what was going on behind the closed doors of their teenagers bedrooms. While gabrielle might prefer a life with less publicity, she is no lesser a writer. Puberty blues 1981 was based on the book of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, a pair of reallife sydney teens who wrote newspaper articles under the pseudonym the salami. Puberty blues is a 1981 australian comingofage film directed by bruce beresford.
Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain for the first time. As an adult, lette became a newspaper columnist and sitcom writer, but returned to the novel form with girls night out in 1988 and has since written several more novels and plays, including foetal attraction, mad cows and dead sexy. Gabrielle carey is often unfairly referred to as the other writer of puberty blues first published in 1979, overshadowed by the effusive kathy lette, who has written a series of laughout. Kathy lette and gabrielle carey are the authors of the book puberty blues. Ryde library service community book club collection. Puberty blues is great entertainment because its both dark and sweet.
In this selection from chapter 1, surfie scrag, writer and. This new edition of puberty blues is published jointly by text publishing and random house australia, in time for the new channel 10 tv series screening from august 15 2012. Network ten released the first episode exclusively to facebook users who liked the official puberty blues. Puberty blues by carey, gabrielle and kathy lette and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took australia by storm and spawned an eponymous cult movie.
Gabrielle teaches writing at the university of technology, sydney, where her longstanding preoccupation with james joyce is happily tolerated. There was my actual puberty, then the book, then the movie of the book directed by bruce beresford, and now the 8 hour mini series. Gabrielle carey is the author of novels, biography, autobiography,essays, articles and short stories, including confessions of a teenage celebrity, about the tumultuous time surrounding the writing and. This is kathy lettes first novel, written with her surfie chick friend gabrielle carey, when they were 18. As im mid menopause, its all very hormonally confusing. The film is based on the 1979 novel puberty blues, by gabrielle carey and kathy lette, which is a protofeminist teen novel about two yearold girls from the lower middle class sutherland shire in. First there was my actual puberty, then the book about it called puberty blues, a slim creation that speaks volumes its like straight literary vegemite, no butter followed by the bruce beresford film of the book and then, in my fifties, mid menopause, i relived it all again in the twentyhour tv miniseries which proved very. The author of puberty blues and chicklit books such as foetal attraction, and her latest book, best laid plans, lette met robertson in 1989 on the set of his abc tv series, hypothetical, in. Coming of age in the 1970s, puberty blues is about top chicks and surfie spunks and the kids who dont make it, in a world where only the gang and the surf count. The film is based on the 1979 novel puberty blues, by gabrielle carey and kathy lette, which is a protofeminist teen novel about two yearold girls from the lower middle class sutherland shire in sydney. Puberty blues audiobook by kathy lette, gabrielle carey. Australian tv comes of age puberty blues johnbrawley. Puberty blues is an australian comingofage comedydrama television series broadcast on network ten. Gabrielle carey is the author of novels, biography, autobiography,essays, articles and short stories, including confessions of a teenage celebrity, about the tumultuous time surrounding the writing and publishing of puberty blues.
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