PublishedBlack Inc, March 2022 |
ISBN9781760643065 |
FormatSoftcover, 320 pages |
Dimensions21cm × 13.6cm × 2.5cm |
Black Inc.'s bestselling Growing Up series goes to the country
'You will find in these pages a colourful and gripping pastiche that updates the experience outside Australia's cities and large regional centres. You will find, despite the absolute variety in these essays, that there is still something ineffable about life in the country.' -Rick Morton
Growing Up in Country Australia is a fresh, modern look at country Australia. There are stories of joy, adventure, nostalgia, connection to nature and freedom, but also more grim tales - of drought, fires, mouse plagues and isolation. From the politics of the country school bus to the class divides between locals, from shooting foxes with Dad to giving up meat as an adult, from working on the family farm to selling up and moving to the city, the picture painted is diverse and unexpected. This is country Australia as you've never seen it before.
Including nearly forty stories by established and emerging authors from a wide range of backgrounds - including First Nations and new migrants - Growing Up in Country Australia is a unique and revealing snapshot of rural life.
Contributors include Holden Sheppard, Laura Jean McKay, Annabel Crabb, Sami Shah, Lech Blaine, Tony Armstrong, Bridie Jabour, Jes Layton, Lily Chan, Jay Carmichael and many others.
Bill is one of the founders of Boffins and has been involved in selecting the books we stock since our beginning in 1989. His favourite reading is history, with psychology, current affairs, and business books coming close behind. His hobbies are reading, food, reading, drinking, reading, and sleeping.
“Growing Up in Country Australia” is a delightful collection of stories from writers who grew up in the bush. From Annabel Crabb on a farm in South Australia, to Lech Blaine in Toowoomba in Queensland, and Farz Edraki whose family swapped Shiraz in Iran for the Deniliquin and Mildura in the Riverina, these are fascinating insights into growing up away from the metropolises that nurture most of us. Funny, moving, occasionally sad, these are great stories that will give us a glimpse into childhoods some of which we might feel jealous were not ours.
