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Bloomer
Lefevre, Carol, 1951-2025
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It is daunting to grow old in a time and place that does not value old people, but the age group known as Boomers should not be so easily dismissed. They marched against the Vietnam War and were the first generation to be liberated from the fear of unwanted pregnancy by the contraceptive pill. Their teenage years were fuelled by protest songs and peace-and-love idealism, and many are still engaged in forms of activism. Framed by the turning of the seasons in her small suburban garden, Carol Lefevre's Bloomer documents the year in which she turned seventy. Memoir threads through meditations on aspects of ageing, from its hidden grief and potential for loneliness to our relationship with the past and with our own mortality. In this gorgeous, optimistic and eloquent coming-of-old-age book, Boomers emerge as Bloomers - people not at the end of things but still on their way, ready to embrace a late-life flourishing.
Main title:
Bloomer / by Carol Lefevre.
Author:
Imprint:
Boon Wurrung Country South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2025.©2025.
Collation:
278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Notes:
Bibliography: pages 268-275.
ISBN:
9781923293038 (hardback)
Dewey class:
BIOGRAPHY
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
526876
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Marys | Nonfiction | BIOGRAPHY LEFE | Onloan - Due: 17 Jun 2025 |