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Adult Fantasy

Adult Fantasy

my search for true maturity in an age of mortgages, marriages, and other supposedly adult milestones

by Briohny Doyle
Paperback
Publication Date: 29/05/2017

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A wry and topical inquiry into how we respond when our cultural clock starts ticking.

For a long time I pretended turning thirty was no big deal but looking back, it’s clear I was bat-shit na-na for a good nine months either side of that birthday.

The first of the millennials are now in their thirties. Dubbed ‘the Peter Pan generation’, they have been accused of delaying adult milestones. But do marriage, careers, mortgages, and babies mean the same thing today that they did 30 years ago?

Briohny Doyle turned 30 without a clear idea of what her adult life should look like. A greengrocer with a graduate degree, the world she lived in didn’t match the one her parents described. Her dad advised her to find a nice secure job; her best friend got married and moved to the suburbs. But she couldn’t help wondering if the so-called adult milestones distract us from other measures of maturity.

In a crackling mix of memoir and cultural critique, Doyle explores how societies cultivate ideas about education, work, relationships, and ageing. She interrogates the concept of adulthood through the neon buzz of pop culture and the lives of other young adults. In a rapidly-changing world, she asks: what is an adult, and how do you become one?

ISBN:
9781925322163
9781925322163
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
29-05-2017
Publisher:
Scribe Publications
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
320
Dimensions (mm):
208x136x29mm
Weight:
0.33kg
Briohny Doyle

Briohny Doyle is a writer and academic, and an inaugural winner of the Scribe Nonfiction Prize for Young Writers.

She has a PhD in the post-apocalyptic imagination, and her work appears in a range of publications in Australia and overseas, and as meaningful pixels all over the internet.

Her debut novel, The Island Will Sink, was published to critical acclaim in 2016. A 2017 Endeavour Scholarship recipient, Briohny will spend time in residence at Yale University and the University of California.

Briohny has taken to the stage at many writers' festivals with everything from room-stopping spoken word to XXX fan porn. Adult Fantasy is her first work of nonfiction.

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