No, I Won't Buy You a Drink!: Memoirs of Travel, Illness, and Authenticity in the Face-to-Face World of the 1990's

What happens when you stop performing and start paying attention

Before social media, before algorithms, before people learned to package themselves online, connection happened face-to-face.

In No, I Won’t Buy You a Drink!, Australian author D.J. Gifford follows Ricardo through the unfiltered world of the 1990s - across Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom, North America, and the Bahamas - navigating hearing loss, chronic illness, unstable work, detention centres, rugby clubs, hospital bed...