Selective Ironies

By Stephen Alomes

Selective Ironies pursues the little and the dark ironies of everyday life and their consolations. He explores our era of tweets, mobile phones, forms, overcrowded transport, travel and human angsts and frustrations in our strange and ever-changing global world. Stephen Alomes, an adjunct professor at RMIT University Melbourne, has

• Language: English
• Publisher: Debbie Lee
• Release date: Oct 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781761090011

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Selective Ironies

Selective Ironies

Stephen Alomes

Ginninderra Press

Selective Ironies

ISBN 978 1 76109 001 1

Copyright © text and internal illustrations Stephen Alomes 2020

Front cover: Wattle Lives (Stephen Alomes, acrylic)

Back cover: Faces of Trump (Stephen Alomes, acrylic)

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First published 2020 by

Ginninderra Press

PO Box 3461 Port Adelaide 5015

www.ginninderrapress.com.au

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Nature’s Journeys

Politics and Personalities

Twits, Hipsters and Digits

Summer’s Madnesses

Everyday Life…sort of

Life and other catastrophes

Naked Truths at Home and Away

Postludes

‘The drink you have when you’re not having a drink’

Clayton’s drink advertisement 1970s featuring actor Jack Thompson

Foreword

Stephen Alomes is talented and versatile. His many books have covered an array of themes across politics, history, creative arts, sport, and now, through Selective Ironies, he has added another feather to his literary cap. He has a way of sharing his wisdom that entertains, whether he is opening our eyes to home truths about our beloved country (A Nation At Last?), paying homage to the great game so many of us cherish (Australian Football: The People’s Game 1958–2058), or giving us valuable insights into popular culture, our ever-changing society, and even France and