Ruth, Roger and Me: Debts and Legacies (BWB Text)

‘Your words of \”discomfort, loss, and disconnection\” don’t resonate with me at all.’ Ruth Richardson to Andrew Dean, 16 December 2014.A time of major upheaval now stands between young and old in New Zealand. In Ruth, Roger and Me, Andrew Dean explores the lives of the generation of young people brought up in the shadow of the economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, those whom he calls ‘the children of the Mother of All Budgets’. Drawing together memoir, history and interviews, he explores the experiences of ‘discomfort’ and ‘disconnection’ in modern Aotearoa New Zealand.

Format: Paperback
Imprint: Bridget Williams NZ
Publication date: 10/04/2015
Series: BWB Texts