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The World According to Y: Inside the New Adult Generation by Rebecca Huntley

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May 2006, no. 281

The World According to Y: Inside the New Adult Generation by Rebecca Huntley

Allen & Unwin, $24.95 pb, 228 pp

The World According to Y: Inside the New Adult Generation by Rebecca Huntley

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May 2006, no. 281

Those young people of today, with their iPods and mobile phones, their tight-knit friendship groups and brief romances, their social activism and distrust of big-P Politics, their yearning for independence and need to conform … what’s really going on in their minds? Not much that sets them apart from the rest of mainstream Australia, or so it appears from Rebecca Huntley’s The World According to Y, where the author’s 18-to-25-year-old interviewees register with few exceptions as cheerful, pragmatic and keen to get on with their lives, however uncertain the future.

The World According to Y: Inside the New Adult Generation

The World According to Y: Inside the New Adult Generation

by Rebecca Huntley

Allen & Unwin, $24.95 pb, 228 pp

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