{"product_id":"land-before-avocado","title":"Land Before Avocado","description":"\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e.cs770278B{10.5pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:normal;Arial;} .csCB8DF0B{10.5pt;font-weight:normal;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:italic;Arial;} .cs5CC07D4{margin:12pt 0pt 12pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs9086F1B{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:italic;Arial;} .cs3270F94{margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt;text-align:left;text-indent:0pt} .cs31346E4{text-align:left;margin:0pt 0pt 10pt 0pt;line-height:1.6;text-indent:0pt} .csB3317AB{12pt;font-weight:bold;color:#1A1A1A;font-style:normal;Arial;}\u003c\/style\u003e\r\n\t\r\n\t\u003cp class=\"cs5CC07D4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csB3317AB\"\u003eThe new book from the bestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs9086F1B\"\u003eFlesh Wounds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csB3317AB\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eA funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be - and just how far we have come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003e'It was simpler time'. We had more fun back then'. 'Everyone could afford a house'.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eThere's plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csCB8DF0B\"\u003eThe Land Before Avocado\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003e, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. It's a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and, now and then, surprisingly appealing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eIt's the Australia of his childhood. The Australia of the late '60s and early '70s.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eLet's break the news now: they didn't have avocado.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eIt's a place of funny clothing and food that was appalling, but amusingly so. It is also the land of staggeringly awful attitudes - often enshrined in law - towards anybody who didn't fit in.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csCB8DF0B\"\u003eThe Land Before Avocado\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewill make you laugh and cry, feel angry and inspired. And leave you wondering how bizarre things were, not so long ago.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eMost of all, it will make you realise how far we've come - and how much further we can go.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs31346E4\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003ePRAISE\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"cs3270F94\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003eRichard Glover's just-published \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csCB8DF0B\"\u003eThe Land Before Avocado\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"cs770278B\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-spacerun:yes\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis a wonderful and witty journey back in time to life in the early 1970s. For a start, he deftly reclaims the book's title fruit from those who have positioned it as a proxy for all that is wrong with today's supposedly feckless and spendthrift young adults. Rather than maligning the avocado (and young people), he cleverly appropriates the fruit as an exemplar of how far we have come since the 1970s' Richard Wakelin, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"csCB8DF0B\"\u003eAustralian Financial Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dear Village","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67652682580244,"sku":"9780733339813","price":35.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6460\/0596\/files\/9780733339813_1.jpg?v=1791532058","url":"https:\/\/dearvillage.com.au\/products\/land-before-avocado","provider":"Dear Village","version":"1.0","type":"link"}