Shadowboxing by Tony Birch

Shadowboxing : Paperback : Scribe Publications : 9781921640155 : 1921640154 : 30 Mar 2010 : Change for us came so unexpectedly. One day my father was stalking the family as he had done for most of our lives, skulking from room to room, accompanied by a menacing silence that we had long ago accepted. And then he was gone. Shadowboxing is a collection of ten linked stories in the life of a boy growing up in the inner-Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy in the 1960s. A beautifully rendered time capsule, it captures a period of decay, turmoil and change through innocent, unblinking eyes. Michaelâ??s...... Mehr