Adult Fantasy
Searching for True Maturity in an Age of Mortgages, Marriages, and Other Adult Milestones
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Narrated by:
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Briohny Doyle
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By:
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Briohny Doyle
About this listen
'I pictured myself a wine-dark streak in a TV desert, ears too full of the summer wind to hear that ominous ticking in the sky: the sound of a cultural clock counting me out of youth.'
Briohny Doyle turned 30 without a clear idea of what her adult life should look like. The world she lived in, with its global economic uncertainty, political conservatism and precarious employment conditions, didn't match the one her parents grew up in. Every day she read editorials about how her millennial cohort - dubbed the 'Peter Pan generation' - were reluctant to embrace the traditional markers of adulthood: a stable job, a house in the suburbs, a nuclear family. But do these emblems of maturity mean the same thing today as they did 30 years ago?
In a smart and spirited enquiry, Doyle examines whether millennials are redefining what it means to be an adult today. Blending personal essay and cultural critique, she ventures into the big claims of philosophy and the neon buzz of pop culture to ask: in a rapidly changing world, do the so-called adult milestones distract us from other measures of maturity?
©2017 Briohny Doyle (P)2017 Audible, LtdCritic Reviews
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- Hannah G
- 12-09-2021
Brilliant
What a brilliant book that was insightful and engaging the whole way through. High recommend from me!
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- The Bench Sydney
- 05-03-2018
Adult Fantasy ~ Buy it
A brilliantly written and thought provoking book. Really raw, revealing and relatable. I read the hard copy and then wanted to hear Doyle's narration. I will read and listen again. I laughed. I cried. I loved it.
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- Alana Hicks
- 21-05-2019
Informative and poignant
A stunning exploration of ageing and maturity, and what it means to be an adult and a human.
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