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Shadowboxing
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A collection of ten linked stories of the life of a boy growing up in 1960s Melbourne. With vivid details of the Fitzroy and Richmond Housing Estates, Smith Street and the Melbourne General Cemetery, it captures a period of decay, turmoil and change through innocent, unblinking eyes.
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AuthorTony Birch
Tony Birch writes short fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction and has also worked as a writer and curator with photographers, film makers and artists. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Melbourne. Tony’s writing has been described in The Age as ‘Hemingwayesque minimalism with the pathos let loose'.
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Who loved this book?Meme McDonald, author
Tony Birch is a storyteller. The collection of fictional stories in Shadowboxing is written from the streets of Fitzroy as he knew them. He gets into the back rooms of a suburb which today the casual visitor could be forgiven for thinking had gone all cutting-edge retro and dreads and flowing chocolate. Tony doesn’t waste ink shifting pretty words across a page. His writing is sparse in a way that lets the story do its own work, leaving room for readers to air-box, shaping up to a toughness of experience that would land many on the canvas. Tony’s style of boxing, on the other hand, is barefoot, telling it in a voice that is no stranger to the streets.
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