03007nam 2200529 450 991082322190332120230126220440.01-925377-50-41-922235-79-2(CKB)3790000000545444(MiAaPQ)EBC4913573(MiAaPQ)EBC4901270(EXLCZ)99379000000054544420190129d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierAustralian lives an intimate history /Anisa Puri and Alistair ThomsonClayton, Victoria :Monash University Publishing,[2017]©20171 online resource (433 pages)Australian history1-922235-78-4 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.'Life is long. When you're forty-eight, there's been a lot of stuff that's happened (laughs). It's got elements of comedy and there are elements of heartache and drama and thriller and it's got so many things in it.' Rhonda King, born 1965 'I really like the idea that in maybe a hundred years someone could listen and hear about my life to learn about what living in 2012 or 2013 was like. Think that's really cool.' Adam Farrow-Palmer, born 1988 Australian Lives: An Intimate History illuminates Australian life across the 20th and into the 21st century: how Australian people have been shaped by the forces and expectations of contemporary history and how, in turn, they have made their lives and created Australian society. From oral history interviews with Australians born between 1920 and 1989, fifty narrators reflect on their diverse experiences as children and teenagers, in midlife and in old age, about faith, migration, work and play, aspiration and activism, memory and identity, pain and happiness. In Australian Lives you can read and in the e-version of the book listen to the comedy, heartache and drama of ordinary Australians' extraordinary lives. As our interviewee Kim Bear (born 1959) explains, 'Stories are a great way to inform people about what it is to be human. Even if you say one thing that resonates...there's that connection made.'Australian history (Monash University Publishing)AustraliansInterviewsAustraliansSocial life and customs20th centuryAustraliaSocial conditions20th centuryAustraliaSocial conditions21st centuryAustraliaBiographyAustraliaHistory20th centuryAustraliaHistory21st centuryAustraliansAustraliansSocial life and customs994Puri Anisa1701428Thomson AlistairMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910823221903321Australian lives4085148UNINA