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Confessions of a State House Kid

出版	Mervyn Dykes, 2015
ISBN	04733382899780473338282
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=NuDsjgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Growing up in a State House was a special experience for many of the 1.125 million New Zealanders born in the Baby Boomer years between 1945 and 1965. New Zealand's 38th Prime Minister, John Key, is one of them and many others are finding places, great or small, in New Zealand's history books. So too are the now iconic homes that jump-started their parents' lives after the hardships of The Depression and World War II. In Confessions of a State House Kid, award-winning journalist, Mervyn Dykes, tells of some of his experiences growing up in a State House and helps record a time that is fast-fading from popular memory. There were no TVs, VCRs or DVD players back then -- let alone cellphones, computers, supermarkets, electronic games or Facebook. Blackberries were eaten. Twittering was for the birds, watches had to be wound up by hand and no one would have dreamed of taking photographs with a telephone. Part personal memoir and part journalism, This is a slice of New Zealand's history, spiced with elements of fun and mischief.