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. Afterwards, she appeared in various british publications as a model. She is one of the pioneering voices of contemporary feminism, paving the way for caitlin moran and lena dunham. The book was released in 1979 when the girls were only 18 years old, and appeared on the big screen two years later. Rachael white rachael white was a houseguest on the uk edition of big brother 11 2010. It has long been controversial with adults but much sought out by teenagers for its depictions of adolescent sex. The mating rituals of two teenage surf chicks from the southern suburbs of sydney. 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. Download free puberty blues by kathy lette, gabrielle. So many of us remember and love puberty blues, a quintessential. Sequence being analysed can be seen in the above video 4.
With dylan goodearl, thorsten hertog, rachael white, brenna harding. A television series based on the novel began airing in 2012. 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 is a tv show on australian national television from network 10 with an average rating of 3. Jul 01, 2008 in this article i examine one film, puberty blues, directed by bruce beresford in 1981. Released in 1981, bruce beresfords iconic australian film remains an unsentimental summer treat, a girlpowered trip to the beach without rosecoloured sunglasses. Puberty blues offers a cheezels and splice world that predates the internet.
Puberty blues 2 puberty blues series 2 episode 8 on vimeo. Thankfully the producers havent allowed the plotline to be hijacked by our present amazement at 70s clothes, hair or cooking habits. A woman in a white lab coat and safety glasses uses a syringe to measure something. With brenna harding, ashleigh cummings, sean keenan, charlotte best. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Based on the 1993 book the women in black by madeleine st john. 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. Watch puberty blues free tv series full seasons online tubi.
Puberty blues 1979 is a novel by the australian writers gabrielle carey and kathy lette. 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. Rachael treasure talks about life, love and regenerative farming. Puberty blues is a 1981 australian comingofage film directed by bruce beresford. My copy is a 2002 reprint from england with new forewards by two of the few australian lady celebs, kylie minogue and germaine greer. Women and children first, plan international, the white ribbon alliance and the nas. The role of puberty blues in bruce beresfords career bruce beresford has been very influential in australian cinema. 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.
The sexism, the bullying, the infidelity, the deceit and the teenage awkwardness made it uncomfortable to watch at times. Director bruce beresford recreates postwar culture. Nov 30, 2015 puberty blues is a tv show on australian national television from network 10 with an average rating of 3. In the 1970s there was a decline in the menzies government and in turn an environment was established in which australian artists could. 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. Jul 04, 2012 heres a first look at puberty blues, a brand new australian television series airing on network ten in 2012. Colour still of alison mcgirr, angourie rice and rachael taylor posing in. Puberty blues nude scenes 6 images and 5 videos including appearances from charlotte best susie porter. 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. 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.
Watch puberty blues free tv series full seasons online. Buy a discounted paperback of puberty blues online from australias leading online bookstore. 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. In this article i examine one film, puberty blues, directed by bruce beresford in 1981. Aug 16, 2012 puberty blues offers a cheezels and splice world that predates the internet.
Puberty blues is the biography which launched kathy lettes writing career and made her famous. Puberty blues is great entertainment because its both dark and sweet. Aug 16, 2012 puberty blues is great entertainment because its both dark and sweet. Its the app for every reader, whether youre a book reader, magazine reader, or newspaper. With nell schofield, jad capelja, jeffrey rhoe, tony hughes.
May 18, 2011 sequence being analysed can be seen in the above video 4. Episodes 1,2,7,8,9 by glendyn ivin episodes 2,3 by sean kruck episodes 4,5 by emma freeman. 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. Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain for the first time. 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. 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. 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. 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. Bestselling author kathy lettes debut novel is available in britain. It also marked the starting point of kathy lettes writing career, which sees her now as an author at the forefront of her field. It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabriel.
Now a major television series on channel 10 starring ashleigh cummings, brenna harding and claudia karvan this is the definitive. To ingratiate themselves into the greenhill gang and. Puberty blues is an australian comingofage comedydrama television series broadcast on network ten. There are pdf versions and epub versions for mobile and tablets. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took. Based on the autobiographical novel by the outrageous salami sisters kathy lette and gabrielle carey, puberty blues is a comingofage chickflick with bite. The first episode of puberty blues was broadcast in november, 2015. 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. Kathy lette is a celebrated and outspoken comic writer who has an inimitable take on serious current issues. Puberty blues follows the lives of two sunburnt 16 yearold best friends, raised in. 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. If you want to start a main pubertyblues page, just click the edit button above. Their high school ambition to be a part of the popular surfy chick gang, and if you werent a surfy chick you were nobody.
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. 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. 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 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. Books similar to puberty blues meet your next favorite book. While gabrielle might prefer a life with less publicity, she is no lesser a writer. Australian tv comes of age puberty blues johnbrawley. Written twenty years ago, puberty blues is the bestselling account of growing up in the 1970s that took more. In this wryly observant comedy drama set in the late 70s, two teenage girls from the shire attempt to join the cool surfing crowd. 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. This is a seamlessly coauthored book about a noholesbarred coming of age.
Text publishing puberty blues, book by gabrielle carey and. The kindle app puts millions of books at your fingertips. Kathy lette and gabrielle carey are the authors of the book puberty blues. 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. Puberty blues and the representation of an australian. Puberty blues by kathy lette 9781742759289 booktopia. 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. We have 18 episodes of puberty blues in our archive. It is based on the 1979 book by kathy lette and gabrielle carey, which was also the inspiration for the 1981 film puberty blues. The book is autobiographical and details the secret lives led by the two teenage girls growing up near cronulla beach in the.
Puberty blues by gabrielle carey penguin books australia. The girls attempt to create a popular social status by ingratiating themselves with the greenhill gang of. Dec, 2016 released in 1981, bruce beresfords iconic australian film remains an unsentimental summer treat, a girlpowered trip to the beach without rosecoloured sunglasses. 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. 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. Heres a first look at puberty blues, a brand new australian television series airing on network ten in 2012.
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. 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. Puberty blues is a story about a nation growing up. Who would seek me out and trick me into trying drugs, providing them for free until i was hooked. Puberty blues tv series 20122014 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers. 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.