Puberty blues is an australian cultclassic and its the book that parents give to their children when they become a teenager to dissuade them from experimenting with drugs and sex. Puberty blues and the representation of an australian. Sep 05, 2012 i first read puberty blues in 1981, and on rereading it this year to coincide with the new channel 10 miniseries based on the book, its hard to see where kathy stops and gabrielle begins, and vice versa. Puberty blues is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was also the inspiration for the 1981 film puberty blues. Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain for the first time.
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. It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was also the inspiration for the 1981 film puberty blues. Sequence being analysed can be seen in the above video 4. Dec, 2016 released in 1981, bruce beresfords iconic australian film remains an unsentimental summer treat, a girlpowered trip to the beach without rosecoloured sunglasses. Puberty blues tv series 20122014 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Puberty blues 1979 is a novel by the australian writers gabrielle carey and kathy lette. Puberty blues is a retrospective that will appeal to both teens and adults trying to find the wisdom to navigate a childs most turbulent years.
It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabriel. Puberty blues is a story about a nation growing up. Puberty blues is the biography which launched kathy lettes writing career and made her famous. In this wryly observant comedy drama set in the late 70s, two teenage girls from the shire attempt to join the cool surfing crowd.
Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey. Their high school ambition to be a part of the popular surfy chick gang, and if you werent a surfy chick you were nobody. The girls attempt to create a popular social status by ingratiating themselves with the greenhill gang of. We have 18 episodes of puberty blues in our archive. It is one of the great comingofage stories in australia, and it remains as relevant now as when it was first written over three decades ago. According to the australian film commission, the film is number forty four of the top australian films at the australian box office from 1966 to 2005 having earned over three million dollars. Books similar to puberty blues meet your next favorite book. The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of sydney. In the 1970s there was a decline in the menzies government and in turn an environment was established in which australian artists could. 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. With nell schofield, jad capelja, jeffrey rhoe, tony hughes.
Heres a first look at puberty blues, a brand new australian television series airing on network ten in 2012. Puberty blues follows the lives of two sunburnt 16 yearold best friends, raised in. Watch puberty blues free tv series full seasons online. Kathy lette and gabrielle carey are the authors of the book puberty blues. Aug 20, 2012 puberty blues is a retrospective that will appeal to both teens and adults trying to find the wisdom to navigate a childs most turbulent years. To ingratiate themselves into the greenhill gang and. Be careful, though, the only things that go in the main namespace are tropes and should be created through the ykttw system. Who would seek me out and trick me into trying drugs, providing them for free until i was hooked. Puberty blues is a 1981 australian comingofage film directed by bruce beresford. Puberty blues series 2 episode 8 5 years ago debbie is finally back in cronulla from boarding school but cant seem to settle back in. Aug 16, 2012 puberty blues offers a cheezels and splice world that predates the internet. Its the app for every reader, whether youre a book reader, magazine reader, or newspaper. With brenna harding, ashleigh cummings, sean keenan, charlotte best.
This is a seamlessly coauthored book about a noholesbarred coming of age. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took. The sexism, the bullying, the infidelity, the deceit and the teenage awkwardness made it uncomfortable to watch at times. Kathy lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an inimitable take on serious current issues. Puberty blues is surely one those early 80s films with its own theme song that makes you just want to throw things at the tv screen, cringing at almost everything the film portrays. Episodes 1,2,7,8,9 by glendyn ivin episodes 2,3 by sean kruck episodes 4,5 by emma freeman. By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by nightin the back of cars, under the bowling alley, on cronulla beach, or, if you were lucky, in a bed while. Puberty blues offers a cheezels and splice world that predates the internet. Nov 30, 2015 puberty blues is a tv show on australian national television from network 10 with an average rating of 3.
Puberty blues by kathy lette 9781742759289 booktopia. It also marked the starting point of kathy lettes writing career, which sees her now as an author at the forefront of her field. 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. Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain. Puberty blues nude scenes 6 images and 5 videos including appearances from charlotte best susie porter. Puberty blues is great entertainment because its both dark and sweet.
If you want to start a main pubertyblues page, just click the edit button above. Download free puberty blues by kathy lette, gabrielle. With dylan goodearl, thorsten hertog, rachael white, brenna harding. Truth masquerades as fiction as kathy lette and gabrielle carey portray themselves, at thirteen years of age, as deb and sue in a tell all account of being a teenager in sydneys beachside suburbs during the 1970s. Weve all been through one or all of those things and i think not a lot has changed since 1979 but the clothes and the drugs of choice. 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. 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. Women and children first, plan international, the white ribbon alliance and the nas. Rachael treasure talks about life, love and regenerative farming. Watch puberty blues free tv series full seasons online tubi. So many of us remember and love puberty blues, a quintessential. Aug 16, 2012 puberty blues is great entertainment because its both dark and sweet.
Now a major television series on channel 10 starring ashleigh cummings, brenna harding and claudia karvan this is the definitive. Based on the 1993 book the women in black by madeleine st john. Puberty blues tv series 20122014 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers. Sue obtains the perfect boyfriend, ferris visits graham in hospital in an attempt to make things right, vicki gets married, bruce and danny attempt their first armed robbery, debbie and gary fall in love all. Puberty blues by gabrielle carey penguin books australia. Director bruce beresford recreates postwar culture. Jul 01, 2008 in this article i examine one film, puberty blues, directed by bruce beresford in 1981. 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. This is puberty blues series 2 episode 9 by glendyn ivin on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Puberty blues 2 puberty blues series 2 episode 8 on vimeo. Rachael white rachael white was a houseguest on the uk edition of big brother 11 2010.
May 18, 2011 sequence being analysed can be seen in the above video 4. My copy is a 2002 reprint from england with new forewards by two of the few australian lady celebs, kylie minogue and germaine greer. 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. First published in 1979 in australia by two 18yearolds, it was a scandal, since it was about sex and drugs and if you count pat boone rock n roll. By day, we were at school learning logarithms, but by nightin the back of cars, under the bowling alley, on cronulla beach, or, if you were lucky, in a bed while someone. 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.
Aug 15, 2012 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. Australian tv comes of age puberty blues johnbrawley. Puberty blues 2 puberty blues series 2 episode 9 on vimeo. 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. Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and friends of debbie and sue, two inseparable teenage friends who are progressing through the coming. Thankfully the producers havent allowed the plotline to be hijacked by our present amazement at 70s clothes, hair or cooking habits.
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. Set in the 1970s, it follows the misadventures of debbie and sue, two cronulla girls angling to break out of dickheadland into the coolest surfie gang. Truth masquerades as fiction as kathy lette and gabrielle carey portray themselves, at thirteen years of age, as deb and sue in a tell all account of being a teenager in. The first episode of puberty blues was broadcast in november, 2015. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took more. A television series based on the novel began airing in 2012. Colour still of alison mcgirr, angourie rice and rachael taylor posing in. Released in 1981, bruce beresfords iconic australian film remains an unsentimental summer treat, a girlpowered trip to the beach without rosecoloured sunglasses. She is one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism, paving the way for caitlin moran and lena dunham. Buy a discounted paperback of puberty blues online from australias leading online bookstore. While gabrielle might prefer a life with less publicity, she is no lesser a writer.
In the late 1970s, debbie and sue are inseparable teenage girls. The book is autobiographical and details the secret lives led by the two teenage girls growing up near cronulla beach in the. There are pdf versions and epub versions for mobile and tablets. I was a little bit older when i read this book and so i feel like i didnt get as much from it if i had read it at 15 or 16 but nevertheless, i consumed this book. Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey and. Puberty blues 1 hours and 27 minutes movie 1981 meet sue, a teenage australian girl in the late 70s, whose life mainly consists of doing what everyone else does watch the surfing boys and have sex with the same surfing boys.
Puberty blues is an australian comingofage comedydrama television series broadcast on network ten. A semiautobiographical book by kathy lette and gabriele carey, it was made into a popular film directed by bruce baresford of the same title that. Afterwards, she appeared in various british publications as a model. The role of puberty blues in bruce beresfords career bruce beresford has been very influential in australian cinema. Based on the autobiographical novel by the outrageous salami sisters kathy lette and gabrielle carey, puberty blues is a comingofage chickflick with bite. A woman in a white lab coat and safety glasses uses a syringe to measure something. Jul 04, 2012 heres a first look at puberty blues, a brand new australian television series airing on network ten in 2012. The book of rachel utilises cannolds research into the period and people as a backdrop to the story of the according to cannold, the story was inspired by a documentary exploring the story of historical jesus which mentioned his brothers but not any sisters.
May 11, 2011 puberty blues follows the lives of two sunburnt 16 yearold best friends, raised in the beach city of cronulla in the sutherland shire of south sydney. Set during the late 1970s, the series revolves around the family and friends of debbie and sue, two inseparable teenage friends who are progressing through the coming of age process. The book was released in 1979 when the girls were only 18 years old, and appeared on the big screen two years later. The kindle app puts millions of books at your fingertips. It has long been controversial with adults but much sought out by teenagers for its depictions of adolescent sex. In this article i examine one film, puberty blues, directed by bruce beresford in 1981. Puberty blues is a tv show on australian national television from network 10 with an average rating of 3.
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