Description
Gabrielle Carey and Kathy Lette’s Puberty blues is an iconic novel, one that chronicles a special time in Australia’s history. It tells the story of two girls, Debbie and Sue, of innocence
lost and experience gained in the 1970’s. In the 1970’s, the middle baby boomers were coming into their adolescence and early adulthood. The sexual revolution was in full flow. In America “teenagerdom” had come into its own in the 1960’s. It happened in Australia in the 1970’s, with the arrival of drugs and the anti-Vietnam War-fed youth rebellion. And the wild mood finds it apotheosis in the surf culture. Lette and Carey created a picture of Australian suburban life in revolution as the wild kids get their rocks off, exploring the worlds of the parents in a context where money and loans are much cheaper, divorce is much easier, full employment and prosperity abound, conventional morality is shifting and everything is endlessly possible.