For Emma and Elvis

For Emma and Elvis follows Michael and Emma as they make their way through the turmoil of the sixties and seventies - the social and political upheavals, the joy and the grief - in Australia and the world.Charles Hall conducts us through the fantasy world of the past where a packet of cigarettes, a gallon of petrol, or a 26 oz bottle of beer cost forty cents; where violence against women was a 'domestic', and therefore of no consequence; where young men, too young to vote, were sent to...
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For Emma and Elvis follows Michael and Emma as they make their way through the turmoil of the sixties and seventies - the social and political upheavals, the joy and the grief - in Australia and the world.Charles Hall conducts us through the fantasy world of the past where a packet of cigarettes, a gallon of petrol, or a 26 oz bottle of beer cost forty cents; where violence against women was a 'domestic', and therefore of no consequence; where young men, too young to vote, were sent to fight and die in Vietnam.For Emma and Elvis is a radiant remembrance of a long-gone Australia, but it is also the story of relationships in turmoil, of the dissolution of trust, of the discovery of the true and lasting.