- Paperback
250 pages
- Release Date
30 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: | 30 August 2023 |
| Weight: | 502g |
| Dimensions: | 38mm x 259mm x 337mm |
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Stephen McGrath
Stephen McGrath is the recipient of the prestigious The Age Short Story Award, having also been a runner-up in the same competition. He has garnered several other national story awards. McGrath grew up in New Zealand before relocating to Melbourne, where he currently resides with his wife and two children.
In 2005, while researching at the Mitchell Library NSW, he discovered a photograph within Jimmy Sharman’s personal collection. This photograph suggested that Jimmy Sharman may not have enlisted in the First World War and instead continued to tour with his Boxing Troupe. After fifteen years of dedicated research and writing, Jimmy Sharman’s Boxers marks his debut novel.
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