The sexism, the bullying, the infidelity, the deceit and the teenage awkwardness made it uncomfortable to watch at times. A profoundly moral story germaine greer i dont recall reading puberty blues so much as devouring it. 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. Fasten your psychological seat belts this audio book is a bumpy ride. Puberty blues 1981 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. 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. For deb and sue it was a time when only top chicks survived and getting into the cool beach gang. There were strong reactions to the depictions of underage sex, rape, pregnancy, drinking and drug taking.
Aug 15, 2012 watch puberty blues full episodes online. 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 laughoutloud best sellers. Gary hennessey puberty blues wiki fandom powered by wikia. Puberty blues star ashleigh cummings debuts edgy new look. Puberty blues and the representation of an australian comprehensive high school. 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.
Puberty blues by gabrielle carey penguin books australia. Do you want to search free download puberty blues or free read online. 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. It concerns two girls growing up in the late 1970s in australia and their families. New hit series puberty blues wednesday nights at 8. 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. Books similar to puberty blues goodreads share book. The friendship between debbie and sue jad capelja, a prettier girl, who starts. Sean keenan interview for puberty blues season 2 popsugar. From an american point of view it is quite jarring. Puberty blues isabelle cornish reveals her parents cant bear to. 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 1979 is a novel by the australian writers gabrielle carey and kathy lette. It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was also the inspiration for the 1981 film puberty blues. Puberty blues is a 1979 novel by gabrielle carey and kathy lette. Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey and. 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.
In season 1 he dated vicki until she cheated on him and. 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. Like many of his fellow young costars, sean keenan was relatively unknown when he landed the role of gary hennessy on puberty blues in 2012, but he quickly. Aug 15, 2012 it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was sydney in the 70s see more at.
Deb and sue are thirteenyearold highschool students whose lives are about male surfers. Based on the iconic novel puberty blues by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, the series will move beyond the original pages and explore the mis adventures of these young girls, their families and friends in a more naive time in australias history. 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. This is kathy lettes first novel, written with her surfie chick friend gabrielle carey, when they were 18. In america teenagerdom had come into its own in the sixties. Puberty blues 2 puberty blues series 2 episode 8 on vimeo.
Aug 30, 2012 puberty blues is based on the iconic era of the seventies. 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. 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. I came across this on the free streaming service tubi. Puberty blues mp3 cd audiobook, mp3 audio, unabridged. Awkward moment gary hennessy encounters his mums new man going commando in the kitchen. A ten year old boy tells his older sister that a man puts his pnis into a womans vgina and begins to describe what happens during sex. Aug 16, 2012 puberty blues is great entertainment because its both dark and sweet.
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. Kate hunter asks mamamia readers was it easier being a teenager in the seventies than it is now. Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain for the first time. Puberty blues is the biography which launched kathy lettes writing career and made her famous. While gabrielle might prefer a life with less publicity, she is no lesser a writer. Oct 14, 2016 puberty blues was adapted from the novel of the same name by kathy lette and gabrielle carey. 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 characters, teenagers debbie vickers and sue knight, as they try and get in with the cool crowd, the green hills gang.
My copy is a 2002 reprint from england with new forewards by two of the few australian lady celebs, kylie minogue and germaine greer. Puberty blues is an australian classic which chronicles a special moment of our history. Dec 27, 2012 this is a story about gary and debbie how they fell in love but when gary gets into drugs debbie leaves. Puberty blues by kathy lette and gabrielle carey 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. Puberty blues is great entertainment because its both dark and sweet. Find books like puberty blues from the worlds largest community of readers. Aug 15, 2012 puberty blues is raw, humorous and honest. 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 series 2 episode 8 5 years ago debbie is finally back in cronulla from boarding school but cant seem to settle back in. It has long been controversial with adults but much sought out by teenagers for its depictions of adolescent sex. 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 and the representation of an australian. He later starts dating debbie and it continues into season 2. Goodreads members who liked puberty blues also liked.
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. Two years earlier albie thoms palm beach 1979 presented a much darker look at the criminal underbelly within a transient surfing community. Download free puberty blues you can download free book and read puberty blues by kathy lette, gabrielle carey for free here. Shes known for playing vicki, perhaps puberty blues crudest. I was about thirteen, alone in my bedroom with the door firmly shut. Watch puberty blues online full episodes of season 2 to 1. May 18, 2011 sequence being analysed can be seen in the above video 4. Australian movies educational aspects education, secondary high schools portrayals research motion pictures motion pictures, australian movies social aspects secondary education.
Shes known as freshfaced beauty debbie vickers in puberty blues and while ashleigh cummings has yet to graduate from her niche of teen angst dramas, the actress onscreen persona takes a. Puberty blues is an australian comingofage comedydrama television series broadcast on network ten. Gary and debbie went through a rough patch when he cheated on her when she was at boarding school they later made up but at. Puberty blues nude scenes 6 images and 5 videos including appearances from charlotte best susie porter. In the early 1970s, the middle baby boomers were coming into their adolescence and early adulthood. Puberty blues is a story about a nation growing up. This is puberty blues series 2 episode 1 by glendyn ivin on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. 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.
Find and follow posts tagged puberty blues on tumblr. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took. I asked director bruce beresford why he originally took on the project to adapt this edgy book to a film. Puberty blues struck a chord with teenage audiences when it was released because its depictions of the surfing subculture, and of ritual experimentations with sex and drugs, were refreshingly frank. Puberty blues is a leisurely, entertaining tale about a group of teenagers fumbling, fighting and fretting their way through adolescence. Puberty blues unabridged audiobook, by kathy lette. In season 1 he dated vicki until she cheated on him and the broke up. 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. Inseparable friends, debbie and sue, want to travel with the cool gang, but first must endure the humiliation and sucking up to get there.
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