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Ninety9

160 pages
Paperback, 17 x 15 cm
Published August 2013
ISBN 9781922146328
Epdf ISBN 9781922146359
Epub ISBN 9781922146342

Ninety9

Vanessa Berry

In the last decade of the twentieth century, when music was recorded on cassettes and movies on VHS, Vanessa Berry was responding to the loneliness of life in the suburbs of Sydney by constructing imaginary worlds and identities from late-night music video programs, band T-shirts, mix-tapes and and the ‘dark energy’ of goth. Written and illustrated by one of Australia’s foremost zine-makers, Ninety9 is a memoir about adolescence, its cherished objects, its magical places and, above all, its friendships – a personal guide to the end of the millennium for those who were too young to be there, and an intimate history, full of moments of recognition, for those who were.

About the Author

Vanessa Berry

Vanessa Berry is a Sydney writer and artist who works with history, memory and archives. She is the author of the memoir Ninety9; the ‘autobiographical almanac’ Strawberry Hills ForeverMirror Sydney, an essayistic atlas exploring the city’s marginal places and undercurrents, and which won the 2018 Mascara Review’s Avant-garde Award for nonfiction; and Gentle and Fierce, an essay collection on humans’ relationships with animals.

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