$30.39
- Paperback
250 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2023
Summary
Jimmy Sharman is a conundrum. Raised in a large poor Catholic family, he became a tent boxer at age eleven. He blinds another boxer and is racked by guilt for the rest of his life, yet develops an extremely profitable and popular showground fixture. We learn about Sharman’s boxing tent spruiking, his unconventional business habits, his furious temper, his leadership, and diplomacy. Sharman was twenty-seven and medically fit when the war started.
We learn the real-life stories of sever…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781922896865 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1922896861 |
| Author: | Stephen McGrath |
| Publisher: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Imprint: | Big Sky Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 250 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 502g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 337mm x 259mm |
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About The Author
Stephen McGrath
Stephen McGrath won the prestigious The Age Short Story Award and was also runner up in the same competition. He has won several other National story awards. He grew up in New Zealand before moving to Melbourne, where he lives with his wife and 2 children. In 2005, at the Mitchell Library NSW, he found a photograph in Jimmy Sharman’s personal collection that suggested Jimmy Sharman did not enlist in the First World War and continued to tour his Boxing Troupe. After 15 years of research and writing, Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers is his first Novel.
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